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tinker Atlantic Provinces 
1 n. the razor-billed auk, Alca torda.
- 1771 (1792) 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.
- 1899 They made a small haul of tinkers.
- 1771 (1792) From this place they brought fifteen ducks, a tinker, a white-fox, and eighty-seven eggs.