noun the chub mackerel.
2. tinker ·noun the razor-billed auk.
3. tinker ·noun a skate.
4. tinker ·noun a small mortar on the end of a staff.
5. tinker ·noun a young mackerel about two years old.
6. tinker ·noun the silversides.
7. tinker ·noun one skilled in a variety of small mechanical work.
8. tinker ·noun a mender of brass kettles, pans, and other metal ware.
9. tinker ·vt to mend or solder, as metal wares; hence, more generally, to mend.
10. tinker ·vi to busy one's self in mending old kettles, pans, ·etc.; to play the tinker; to be occupied with small mechanical works.