Obs. rare. [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.
