鋳い掛かけ

noun

tinkering; mending metalware

Refers to the traditional craft of repairing metal pots, pans, and kettles by soldering or brazing. Now largely historical, but the term survives in cultural contexts.

• 昔むかしは鋳い掛かけ屋やが鍋なべや釜かまを直なおしてくれた。

  In the old days, tinkers would repair pots and kettles for you.

• 鋳い掛かけの技ぎ術じゅつはほとんど失うしなわれてしまった。

  The craft of tinkering has almost been lost.

noun

couple walking together

Archaic term for a man and woman walking together, possibly derived from the image of a tinker and his wife traveling. Not used in modern Japanese.

• 江え戸ど時じ代だいの文ぶん献けんに「鋳い掛かけ」が男だん女じょ連つれ立だつ意い味みで出でてくることがある。

  In Edo-period texts, 鋳掛け sometimes appears meaning a man and woman walking together.