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TOM THE TINKER

\tˈɒm ðə tˈɪŋkə], \tˈɒm ðə tˈɪŋkə], \t_ˈɒ_m ð_ə t_ˈɪ_ŋ_k_ə]\

Definitions of TOM THE TINKER

1894 - Dictionary of United States history

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the popular watchword of the rebels of western Pennsylvania during the Whisky Rebellion of 1794, originating in the destruction of the house of an obnoxious official by a mob, which gave out that it was being tinkered.

1894 - Dictionary of United States history
By John Franklin Jameson

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