▪ I. † tinger1 Obs. rare.
(ˈtɪŋə(r))
[app. from a vb. *ting, OE. *tengan = ON. tengja to make fast, fasten, tie together.]
A workman employed in raising and making fast the body of a cart after it has been emptied by tipping.
| 1587 Fleming Contn. Holinshed III. 1544/2 There were also eight tingers, whose speciall office was to lift vp the courts [= carts] immediatelie after they were vnloden, and to make fast their tackle... There attended also..men called vntingers, to loose and vndoo the tackle..before the vnloding. Ibid. 1545/1 The driuer neuer staied, but went foorth for a new lode: the tinger runneth after and pulleth vp the court, and fasteneth the tackle. |
▪ II. tinger2
(ˈtɪndʒə(r))
[f. tinge v. + -er1.]
One who or that which tinges.
| 1814 W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. XXXVII. 146 Girdle of the summer rain, Tinger of the dews of air. 1864 in Webster. |