DCHP-3

tinker

Atlantic Provinces
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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1n.

the razor-billed auk, Alca torda.

See: turr

Quotations

1771
From this place they brought fifteen ducks, a tinker, a white-fox, and eighty-seven eggs.
1905
It is sometimes called tinker, and sometimes turre.
1965
Had this officer possessed the minimum requirements of knowledge, he would have promptly identified the bird as a Razor-billed Auk, a sea-bird about crow size which is locally called "Tinker."
2†n.

the common mackerel, Scomber scombrus, caught off the Atlantic coast.

Quotations

1899
They made a small haul of tinkers.