Chiefly Scottish. Iron plated with tin; tin plate. Also called latten and white latten. Now rare.

Iron tinned over, tin-plate; more explicitly white latten. Also, any metal made in thin sheets. Now dialect.

Sheet-iron or, in later use, often sheet-steel, coated with tin; a plate of this.

plural. Very thin sheet-iron, usually coated with tin. (Also taggar.) Now also singular, chiefly in attributive use.

Thin sheet-iron coated with an alloy of lead and tin; an inferior kind of tin-plate; a sheet or plate of this. Also attributive.

tin plate made from iron refined in a cokery; tin plate having a lighter coating than charcoal plate.

= terne-plate, n.

The solid substance left after mineral coal has been deprived by dry distillation of its volatile… (a) Tin plate made from iron produced in a…

Tinplate that has been deposited electrolytically. Frequently attributive.