tinker
ਰੱਦੋਬਦਲ
definition
verb
he spent hours tinkering with the car
attempt to repair or improve something in a casual or desultory way, often to no useful effect.
noun
The tinkers live by mending pots and pans, telling fortunes and selling horses and ponies at the various fairs throughout the country.
(especially in former times) a person who travels from place to place mending metal utensils as a way of making a living.
I had a brief tinker with my blog template earlier, really to just try and figure out which lines relate to which part of the screen.
an act of attempting to repair something.
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It was in this location that a 'tinker' 's body was once found, giving the place the name of the ‘Murder Hole’.
Finally, she was joined by an old bearded 'tinker' who had come down to the shore with his heavy canvas bag of tradesman's tools.
This week, one of his past works, Petra - the story of a soldier, a witch and a 'tinker' helping a young woman to explain to her son why he is now a ghost - is revisited as part of the Glasgow West End Festival.
The more confident 'tinker' may find sport in discharging large capacitors with a well insulated screwdriver (always use an old or borrowed one as this can result in quite nasty pitting of the tip).
So this week we salute Valentine: 'tinker' , tailor, soldier, priest and, above all, patron saint of card manufacturers.
And one person described Gaelic as ‘the 'tinker' 's language ’, so that there's obviously some sort of snobbery about the language going on there.
The old 'tinker' took a stick of solder from a bag at his side and laid its tip against where the edges of the tube and the circle met.
Fresh from the day's rehearsals as Hester Swane, the 'tinker' 's daughter whom she will play for 14 weeks at Wyndhams Theatre, in the West End, Hunter explains the appeal of treading the boards.
Christopher Sly, a drunken old 'tinker' , is conned into watching The Taming of the Shrew as it is presented by a company of players.
I had a brief 'tinker' with my blog template earlier, really to just try and figure out which lines relate to which part of the screen.
Probably the image was 'tinkered' with a bit to bring out the highlights, but it's impressive nonetheless.
I've been 'tinkering' a bit, so do please tell me if you have any difficulty posting comments here or linking to any part of this site.
In the early '50s, Bate's parents, Bev and Viv (or Viv and Bev-no one can say for sure), swapped him to unwary 'tinkers' for a three-legged dog.
But critics argue the flag is the latest attempt to wrest control from consumers, stifle innovation, create inconvenience, turn 'tinkerers' into criminals and raise prices - all for a technology that won't stop piracy anyway.
Jack, an outcast and drifter himself, feels a connection with the 'tinkers' and takes the job which, in turn, takes Taylor to perilous places within and without.
Wicketkeepers are notorious 'tinkerers' , especially with regard to their kit.
Quite near us, in Wigton, just beyond the cemetery, was a place called Black Tippoe and that was where gypsies and 'tinkers' used to come and winter there.
Obviously, 'tinkerers' have been opening up gadgets for centuries and mucking with them.
We shouldn't be 'tinkering' with the checks and balances our founding fathers put in this constitution.
After 'tinkering' with the controls for some time, I did find the right settings that I was very comfortable with.
The other real trouble - involving violence and vandalism in addition to the usual epidemic of thefts - came from Irish 'tinkers' , about whom I blogged here, but failed to mention the manner of their departure.
I started on motorcycles, but after two years as a mechanic in the air force I thought I'd make more money 'tinkering' with cars.
While the motion was 'tinkered' with, the decision was made to reject the draft plan.
Some villager somewhere is out working in front of his garage, 'tinkering' with something as he usually is.
She enjoys sitting on the counter as I'm 'tinkering' with something, and she'll often lend a paw to stir something.
Solutions do not lie in 'tinkering' with the system, fiddling while Earth burns.
In the early 1980s the map was 'tinkered' with, forcing both the Midlands and the South into splitting their large regions into 2 sub-regions.
For the first time in his life, Yllek felt a sense of awe and wonder regarding his native city, and began to understand the underlying truth behind the stories borne by travelling 'tinkers' and bards through the outlying lands.
Luckily, I was 'tinkering' with a design for a different site and I've decided to steal that for my re-design.
Only rich 'tinkerers' could afford an automobile before Henry Ford developed an assembly line to make cars cheap and reliable enough for everyone.
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