Definition of "tinkler" [tin•kler]

• A tinker. (noun)

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• "By way of retaliation the youths, when opportunity occurred, would tie the cord of the "tinkler" to the weathercock, and the parish on a stormy night would be startled by the sound of ghostly, fitful ting-tangs."
• "‘Hark!’ cried the Dodger at this moment, ‘I heard the tinkler.’"
• "Now they don't come much more cunning than Mike German, and the old ivory tinkler spotted an opening."