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tinker
noun
1. A clumsy repairer or worker; a meddler.
2. A traveling mender of metal household utensils.
3. Chiefly British A member of any of various traditionally itinerant groups of people living especially in Scotland and Ireland; a traveler.
4. One who enjoys experimenting with and repairing machine parts.
5. A usually itinerant mender of household utensils.
verb
1. To work in the manner of a tinker.
2. To repair, adjust, or work with something in an unskilled or experimental manner .
3. To repair, adjust, or experiment with.
verb-intransitive
1. To make unskilled or experimental efforts at repair; fiddle: tinkered with the engine, hoping to discover the trouble; tinkering with the economy by trying various fiscal policies.
2. To work as a tinker.
verb-transitive
1. To manipulate unskillfully or experimentally.
2. To mend as a tinker.
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Word Game |
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reknit | 10 |
Scrabble |
2 Letters | Scrabble® Points |
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te | 2 |
ne | 2 |
en | 2 |
re | 2 |
ki | 6 |
ti | 2 |
it | 2 |
in | 2 |
et | 2 |
er | 2 |
3 Letters | Scrabble® Points |
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tie | 3 |
ten | 3 |
nit | 3 |
rin | 3 |
ret | 3 |
rei | 3 |
tin | 3 |
net | 3 |
ken | 7 |
kin | 7 |
irk | 7 |
ire | 3 |
ern | 3 |
kit | 7 |
kir | 7 |
ink | 7 |
4 Letters | Scrabble® Points |
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rent | 4 |
kern | 8 |
rink | 8 |
rite | 4 |
tein | 4 |
tern | 4 |
tier | 4 |
tike | 8 |
tine | 4 |
tire | 4 |
trek | 8 |
rein | 4 |
kent | 8 |
kier | 8 |
kine | 8 |
kirn | 8 |
nite | 4 |
keir | 8 |
kite | 8 |
knit | 8 |
5 Letters | Scrabble® Points |
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inker | 9 |
trine | 5 |
trike | 9 |
kiter | 9 |
niter | 5 |
nitre | 5 |
inert | 5 |
reink | 9 |
inter | 5 |
6 Letters | Scrabble® Points |
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reknit | 10 |
tinker | 10 |