Usually means: Adjusted or modified with experimentation.
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We found 15 dictionaries that define the word tinkered:

General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. tinkered: Merriam-Webster
  2. tinkered: Collins English Dictionary
  3. tinkered: Vocabulary.com
  4. tinkered: Wordnik
  5. tinkered: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. tinkered: Wiktionary
  7. tinkered: Dictionary.com
  8. tinkered: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Tinkered: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Tinkered: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. tinkered: FreeDictionary.org
  12. tinkered: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. tinkered: Legal dictionary

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  1. tinkered: Encyclopedia

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  1. tinkered: Idioms

(Note: See tinker as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Tinker)

noun:  An itinerant tinsmith and mender of household utensils made of metal.
noun:  (dated, chiefly British and Ireland, offensive) A member of the Irish Traveller community or of other itinerant groups; a gypsy.
noun:  (usually with "little") A mischievous person, especially a playful, impish youngster.
noun:  Someone who repairs, or attempts repair, on anything mechanical, or who invents such devices; one who tinkers; a tinkerer.
noun:  (informal) An act of repair or invention.
noun:  (military, obsolete) A hand mortar.
noun:  Any of various fish: chub mackerel, silverside, skate, or young mackerel about two years old.
noun:  A bird, the razor-billed auk.
verb:  (intransitive) To work as a tinker.
verb:  (ambitransitive) To fiddle with something in an attempt to fix, mend or improve it, especially in an experimental or unskilled manner.
noun:  A northern English surname originating as an occupation for someone who mends pots and pans.
▸ Also see tinker


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