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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 999 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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TINKER , an itinerant mender of kettles, pots, pans, &c . The name means simply one who makes a tinkling See also:

sound as he mends the vessels, and the word is found as " tinkeer " in the 16th See also:

CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century . From See also:

early times " tinkers " were looked on as vagabonds, and were so classed in the See also:

ACT (Lat. actus, actum)

act of See also:

Elizabeth against See also:

VAGRANCY (formed from " vagrant," wandering, unsettled; this word appears in Anglo-Fr. as wakerant and O.Fr. as wancrant, and is probably of Teut. origin, cf. M.L.G. welkern, to walk about; it is allied to Eng. " walk," and is not to be directly referred

vagrancy .

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