rare–1. [f. KETTLE + -ER1.] One who mends or repairs kettles, a tinker.
1604. T. M., Black Bk., in Middleton’s Wks. (1840), V. 543. I would have the sometimes go disguised (in honest apparel), and so drawing in amongst bunglers and ketlers, under the plain frieze of simplicity [etc.].
