jan 1, 1681 - tinkle

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r The regional form of tinker. 1446 <i>Et de Ricardo Walter, tynkler, pro licencia concessa ad occupandum infra civitatem</i>, York (SS192/29); 1520 <i>To Agnes Sherp a brasse pott with a tyncler clowte</i>, Ripon (SS79/187n); 1542 <i>2 litil panes 2 tyngler panes 14d</i>, Marske (YRS152/58); 1579 <i>Item payd to tinckeler for mending of panes</i>, Stockeld (YRS161/11); 1681 <i>brought a panne to a tinklers house ... in our town</i>, Northowram (OH2/228). By-names provide earlier evidence: 1314 ‘Gilbert <i>Tynkeler</i>’, Wakefield (YRS57/33). See Tinker, Tinkler (GRDict).

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