A person who enjoys fixing and experimenting with machines and their parts.

synonym: tinkerer.

Roget 660: restoration, restoral; reinstatement, replacement, rehabilitation, reestablishment, reconstitution, reconstruction; reproduction etc. 163; renovation, renewal; revival, revivessence^†, reviviscence^†; refreshment etc. 689; resuscitation, reanimation, revivification, reviction^†; Phenix; reorganization.    renaissance, second youth, rejuvenescence^†, new birth; regeneration, regeneracy^†, regenerateness^†; palingenesis^†, reconversion.    redress, retrieval, reclamation, recovery; convalescence; resumption, resumption; sanativeness^†.    recurrence etc. (repetition) 104; rechauffe [Fr.], rifacimento [It].    cure, recure^†, sanation^†; healing etc. v.; redintegration^†; rectification; instauration^†.    repair, reparation, remanufacture; recruiting etc. v.; cicatrization; disinfection; tinkering.    reaction; redemption etc. (deliverance) 672; restitution etc. 790; relief etc. 834.    tinker, cobbler; vis medicatrix etc. (remedy) 662^†.    curableness.    ... show more

Polish: majster-klepka

Formerly a person (traditionally a Gypsy) who traveled from place to place mending pots and kettles and other metal utensils as a way to earn a living.

Polish: druciarz

Small mackerel found nearly worldwide.

synonyms: chub mackerel, Scomber japonicus.

Dutch: koperslager

Do random, unplanned work or activities or spend time idly.

synonyms: mess around, monkey, monkey around, muck about, muck around, potter, putter.

Roget 654: be in health etc. adj.. bloom, flourish.    keep body and soul together, keep on one's legs; enjoy good health, enjoy a good state of health; have a clean bill of health.    return to health; recover etc. 660; get better etc. (improve) 658; take a new lease of life, fresh lease of life; recruit; restore to health; cure etc. (restore) 660; tinker.    ... show more

Roget 660: return to the original state; recover, rally, revive; come come to, come round, come to oneself; pull through, weather the storm, be oneself again; get well, get round, get the better of, get over, get about; rise from one's ashes, rise from the grave; survive etc. (outlive) 110; resume, reappear; come to, come to life again; live again, rise again.    heal, skin over, cicatrize; right itself.    restore, put back, place in statu quo [Lat.]; reinstate, replace, reseat, rehabilitate, reestablish, reestate^†, reinstall.    reconstruct, rebuild, reorganize, reconstitute; reconvert; renew, renovate; regenerate; rejuvenate.    redeem, reclaim, recover, retrieve; rescue etc. (deliver) 672.    redress, recure^†; cure, heal, remedy, doctor, physic, medicate; break of; bring round, set on one's legs.    resuscitate, revive, reanimate, revivify, recall to life; reproduce etc. 163; warm up; reinvigorate, refresh etc. 689.    make whole, redintegrate^†; recoup etc. 790; make good, make all square; rectify, correct; put right, put to rights, set right, set to rights, set straight; set up; put in order etc. (arrange) 60; refit, recruit; fill up, fill up the ranks; reinforce.    repair; put in repair, remanufacture, put in thorough repair, put in complete repair; retouch, refashion, botch^†, vamp, tinker, cobble; do up, patch up, touch up, plaster up, vamp up; darn, finedraw^†, heelpiece^†; stop a gap, stanch, staunch, caulk, calk, careen, splice, bind up wounds.    ... show more

Work as a tinker or tinkerer.

Try to fix or mend:
— Can you tinker with the T.V. set--it's not working right.

synonym: fiddle.