tinn.
/tɪn/, U.S. /tɪn/ 1.
a. One of the well-known metals, nearly approaching silver in whiteness and lustre, highly malleable and taking a high polish; used in the manufacture of articles of block tin, in the formation of alloys, as bronze, pewter, etc., and, on account of its resistance to oxidation, for making tin-plate and lining culinary and other iron vessels.Tin is rarely if ever found native, but occurs in two ores, the dioxide, SnO2, called tin-stone or cassiterite, and, less commonly, in tin-pyrites or sulphide of tin, SnS2. Chemically it is a dyad metallic element, symbol Sn (stannum), atomic weight (O = 16) 119 ( Internat. Committee in Jrnl. Chem. Soc. Sept. 1912, 1832); specific gravity about 7·3. In Alchemy represented by the same sign (♃) as the planet Jupiter.
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the world > matter > chemistry > elements and compounds > metals > specific elements > tin > [noun]
tinc897
Jupiterc1386
Jove1599
white lead1601
stannum1783
society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > base metal > [noun] > tin
tinc897
tin-glass1601
white lead1601
crashing lead1678
society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > base metal > [adjective] > made of tin
tinnenc1000
tin1382
tinny1552
c897 K. Ælfred tr. Gregory Pastoral Care xxxvii. 266 Ðis Israhela folc is geworden nu me to sindrum & to are & to tine & to iserne & to leade inne on minum ofne.
c1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 163 Ðe caliz [in church is] of tin and hire [the priest's concubine's] nap of mazere and ring of golde.
1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 144 Metal, as led and tyn.
1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Num. xxxi. 22 Brasse, and yren, and tynne.
a1450 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 613/20 Stannum, tyn.
a1450 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 653/14 Hoc stagnum, tyne.
?1543 T. Phaer tr. J. Goeurot Regiment of Lyfe ii. f. xiiiv Kepe them in a boxe of tynne.
1548 in J. Stuart Extracts Council Reg. Aberdeen (1844) I. 259 vij platis of twne,..item, iij quartis of twne.
1559 Will of Robert Hoope (P.R.O.: PROB. 11/42B) f. 181 Beades of Teenes.
1561 in J. Stuart Extracts Council Reg. Aberdeen (1844) I. 336 Ane charger of tun, ane plait of tun, ane dische of tun.
1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 184 Rich and plentious mines of tinne.
1796 R. Kirwan Elements Mineral. (ed. 2) II. 195 The colour of Tin is greyish white... Fracture hackly, crackles..when bent.
1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art II. 388 Equal parts of tin and bismuth, form a brittle alloy.
1863 C. Lyell Geol. Evid. Antiq. Man ii. 10 Bronze is an alloy of about nine parts of copper and one of tin.
b. With defining attribute. bar-tin n. = block tin n. block tin n. tin of second quality cast into blocks; solid tin as distinct from tin plate; a receptacle made from this. grain tin n. a very pure tin obtained by fusing stream tin in a blast furnace supplied with charcoal, and breaking it into small pieces. phosphor tin n. an artificial compound of tin and phosphorus. stream tin n. tin ore washed from the sand or gravel in which it occurs. white tin n. see white adj. and n. Compounds 1g(c)(ii). black tin: see the first element.
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the world > matter > chemistry > elements and compounds > metals > specific elements > tin > [noun] > compounds
phosphor tin1668
stannide1862
TBT1973
society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > base metal > [noun] > tin > types of
white tin1562
mine tin1602
grain tin1668
phosphor tin1668
pillion1778
grey tin1804
prillion1821
society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > base metal > [noun] > tin > block tin
block tin1668
bar-tin1746
brick tin1753
society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > [noun] > made of tin > specific
block tin1879
1844 G. Fownes Man. Elem. Chem. 301 Two varieties of commercial tin are known, called grain and bar-tin.
1870 J. Yeats Nat. Hist. Commerce 361 Stream ores produce the grain tin,..and the others the bar or block tin.
1668 W. Charleton Onomasticon Zoicon 295 Mundick, and Block Tin.
1688 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) I. 455 There is a new patent passing empow'ring commissioners for the making of new tinn farthings of block tinn.
1836 C. Dickens in Bell's Life in London 17 Jan. 1/1 The little block-tin temple sacred to ‘baked 'taturs’.
1842 Penny Cycl. XXIV. 472/2 After refining, the tin is cast into blocks of about three cwt. each... Tin thus prepared is sold as block tin.
1853 C. Dickens Bleak House xxvi. 259 He could play 'em a tune on any sort of pot you please, so as it was iron or block tin.
1879 M. E. Braddon Vixen I. xiii. 255 The silver kettle..was conducting itself as spitfireishly as any blackened block-tin on a kitchen hob.
1910 G. B. Shaw Let. 21 Mar. (1972) II. 915 You inherited from your father a sense of the importance of block-tin piping.
1796 R. Kirwan Elements Mineral. (ed. 2) II. 201 Grain Tin approaches to the silvery white. Common block Tin is bluer.
1877 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. 2575/1 Grain-tin is prepared by plunging blocks of tin into a bath of molten tin, and when they have assumed a brittle crystaling texture, they are broken with a hammer; or, after being heated nearly to the fusing-point, they are allowed to fall from a considerable hight; they are thus broken up into elongated grains.
a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 673/1 Phosphor Tin... Useful in making phosphor bronze.
1796 R. Kirwan Elements Mineral. (ed. 2) II. 201 In Cornwall the best Tin Ores are those that are washed down the hills by torrents, and thence called Stream Tin Ores.
1842 W. T. Brande Dict. Sci., Lit. & Art 1240/1 Stream tin,..from it the purest metal is obtained.
2.
a. A vessel made of tin, or more usually of tinned iron; spec. a vessel in which meat, fish, fruit, etc., is hermetically sealed for preservation (= can n.1 1b); locally, a small cylindrical drinking vessel or mug with a handle.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > [noun] > made of tin
tin can1770
tin1795
the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > cooking vessel or pot > [noun] > ovenware > tin or pan
bake panc1350
trap?c1390
roaster1649
pattypan1660
cake pan1714
hoop1736
cake tin1771
baking tin?1775
tin1795
bake-kettle1828
bun-pana1845
brick tin1880
springform1902
tourtière1959
the world > food and drink > food > container for food > [noun] > tin
can1852
tin1861
the world > food and drink > drink > containers for drink > drinking vessel > [noun] > small
tass1480
cymphe1490
cannikin1509
trinket1541
tun1555
pocill1572
noggin1588
chark1591
quick shot1624
nipperkin1691
pannikin1727
tassie1790
dobbin1792
tinnie1825
tot1828
tin1900
thimble cup1933
1795 S. Martin New Experienced Eng.-Housekeeper v. 73 Butter the tins, and bake them in a pretty quick oven.
1821 J. Clare Village Minstrel II. 73 With shining tin to keep his dinner warm Swung at his back.
1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 354/1 The sellers of tins, who carry them under their arms, or in any way on a round,..are known as hand-sellers.
1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. (1856) xxx. 258 Now we had to quarry out the blocks [of ice]..and then melt it in tins for our daily drink.
1861 I. M. Beeton Bk. Househ. Managem. vi. 100 Many cooks use the tinned turtle..preserved..in hermetically-sealed canisters... The cost of a tin..is about £2.
1898 British Printer XI. 218 A couple of opened ink tins.
1900 H. G. Graham Social Life Scotl. 18th Cent. (1901) iv. ii. 135 They partook of a tin of ale.
1901 Westm. Gaz. 29 Nov. 8/2 An action..that concerns 200,000 tins of strawberry jam for the troops in South Africa.
1912 N.E.D. at Tin Mod. To open a tin of sardines. (Scotl.) Each child brought a tin and received her tinful of milk.
b. Tin-plate as the material of such vessels.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > plated or coated metal > [noun] > tinplate > specific
frying-pan plate1686
tin1879
electro-tinplate1945
1879 Mrs. A. G. F. E. James Indian Househ. Managem. 85 A tin writing case is much more useful..for in tin nothing will mildew as it is liable to do in leather.
1886 J. Ruskin Præterita I. ix. 283 Meat of their own herds, untainted by American tin.
c. Cricket colloquial. the tins, rectangular metal pieces each with a single white number painted on a black ground, set on the scoreboard or ‘telegraph’ to show the score, etc., during a match. on the tins: on the scoreboard.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > umpiring and scoring > [noun] > score > scoreboard
telegraph board1841
telegraph1849
the tins1903
1903 D. L. A. Jephson in H. G. Hutchinson Cricket iv. 97 Poor old Surrey in the soup again!.. The mouldy eight runs on the tins were only hoisted there by a mighty effort.
1944 E. Blunden Cricket Country i. 19 The call from the pavilion..sent the tins hustling up on the score~board.
d. Squash. A strip of metal or other material fitted along the bottom of the front wall of the court, which resounds when struck by the ball, showing it to have dropped out of play. With the.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > racket games > squash rackets > [noun] > court > specific part
sidewall1657
nicka1672
reverse angle1922
tin1933
1926 C. Arnold Game of Squash Rackets i. 1 On the front wall is fixed the playboard or tell tale. This consists of a piece of boarding backed with tin extending to a height of 19 inches from the ground. A ball striking this surface would not count, hence the name and the tin backing which sends forth a metallic clang when struck.]
1933 Times 18 Nov. 5/7 Time after time he got his opponent out of position and then, in too great a hurry to finish off the rally, put the ball on to the tin.
1960 Times 29 Nov. 17/4 Gordon..cast away his chances into the tin.
1973 M. Russell Double Hit xxv. 187 The boy aimed a stroke which missed. The fourth he returned into the tin.
e. straight from the tin (figurative): direct from the source; in a fresh and unspoilt condition.
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1929 Evening News 18 Nov. 12/4 What they want here is Yankee twang straight from the tin.
3. slang.
a. Money, cash. Cf. brass n. 3b.Said to have been first applied to the small silver coins of the 18th cent., which before their recall in 1817 were often worn quite smooth without trace of any device, so as to resemble pieces of tin. See quot. 1846 for tin-like adj. at Compounds 1c(g).
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society > trade and finance > money > [noun]
silverc825
feec870
pennieseOE
wortheOE
mintOE
scata1122
spense?c1225
spendinga1290
sumc1300
gooda1325
moneya1325
cattlec1330
muckc1330
reasona1382
pecunyc1400
gilt1497
argentc1500
gelta1529
Mammon1539
ale silver1541
scruff1559
the sinews of war1560
sterling1565
lour1567
will-do-all1583
shell1591
trasha1592
quinyie1596
brass1597
pecuniary1604
dust1607
nomisma1614
countera1616
cross and pilea1625
gingerbreada1625
rhinoa1628
cash1646
grig1657
spanker1663
cole1673
goree1699
mopus1699
quid1699
ribbin1699
bustle1763
necessary1772
stuff1775
needfula1777
iron1785
(the) Spanish1788
pecuniar1793
kelter1807
dibs1812
steven1812
pewter1814
brad1819
pogue1819
rent1823
stumpy1828
posh1830
L. S. D.1835
rivetc1835
tin1836
mint sauce1839
nobbins1846
ochre1846
dingbat1848
dough1848
cheese1850
California1851
mali1851
ducat1853
pay dirt1853
boodle?1856
dinero1856
scad1856
the shiny1856
spondulicks1857
rust1858
soap1860
sugar1862
coin1874
filthy1876
wampum1876
ooftish1877
shekel1883
oil1885
oof1885
mon1888
Jack1890
sploshc1890
bees and honey1892
spending-brass1896
stiff1897
mazuma1900
mazoom1901
cabbage1903
lettuce1903
Oscar Asche1905
jingle1906
doubloons1908
kale1912
scratch1914
green1917
oscar1917
snow1925
poke1926
oodle1930
potatos1931
bread1935
moolah1936
acker1939
moo1941
lolly1943
loot1943
poppy1943
mazoola1944
dosh1953
bickies1966
lovely jubbly1990
scrilla1994
1836 Smith Individual, Thieves' Chaunt 5 (Farmer) Because she lately nimm'd some tin, They have sent her to lodge at the King's Head Inn.
1841 C. Dickens Old Curiosity Shop i. ii. 84 How much better would it be..to hand over a reasonable amount of tin.
1854 ‘M. Harland’ Alone xxiv She married a rich old man for his ‘tin’.
b. the Tins n. a nickname of the Household Cavalry (from their cuirasses).
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society > armed hostility > armed forces > the Army > unit of army > named companies, regiments, etc. > [noun] > British
Ulsters1649
Scots Guardsa1675
fusilier1680
guards1682
Scots Dragoons1689
Scots Fusiliers1689
Inniskilling1715
Scots Greys1728
blue1737
Black Watch1739
Oxford blues1766
green linnets1793
Grenadiers1800
slashers1802
the Buffs1806
tartan1817
Gay Gordons1823
cheesemongers1824
Green Jacket1824
The Bays1837
RHA1837
dirty half-hundred1841
die-hard1844
lifeguard1849
cherry-picker1865
lancer-regiment1868
cheeses1877
Territorial Regiment1877
the Sweeps1879
dirty shirts1887
Scottish Rifles1888
shiner1891
Yorkshire1898
imperials1899
Irish guards1902
Hampshires1904
BEF1914
Old Contemptibles1915
contemptibles1917
Tank Corps1917
the Tins1918
skins1928
pioneer corps1939
red devils1943
Blues and Royals1968
U.D.R.1969
1918 G. Frankau Poet. Wks. (1923) 181 Why ride the Tins in full review-array? 'Tis Hazeline Tredither's wedding-day!
1947 Times 16 Sept. 5/4 The Household Cavalry are the ‘Tins’, in allusion to their cuirasses; the shrapnel helmet of our day is a ‘tinhat’.
1982 A. Barr & P. York Official Sloane Ranger Handbk. 90/1 Household Cavalry (the Tins: the Life Guards, and the Blues & Royals).
c. The badge or shield of a policeman. U.S.
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society > law > law enforcement > police force or the police > [noun] > police insignia
star1830
chevron1868
shield1903
potsy1932
tin1949
1949 E. Partridge Dict. Underworld 725/2 Tin,..as ‘a sheriff's badge’, it is American s[lang].
1956 ‘E. McBain’ Cop Hater (1958) xiii. 109 They reached for the leather cases to which their shields were pinned... They pinned the tin to their collars.
1975 ‘S. Marlowe’ Cawthorn Jrnls. (1976) ii. xix. 170 Mason Reed flashed the tin. ‘Police officer. March right out of here.’
Compounds
C1. General attributive.
a. attributive or as adj. Made or consisting of tin (or of tin-plate).
(a)
tin bar n.
tin basin n.
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1487 in H. E. Malden Cely Papers (1900) 157 A tyn basson wt oder geyr.
tin box n.
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1723 J. Nott Cook's & Confectioner's Dict. sig. Ii8 You may boil it [sc. spinach] in a Tin-box, which shuts so close, that no Liquor can get in.
1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Tin-box, Tin-case, a strong iron box tinned and japanned, for holding papers, dress articles, etc.
tin bucket n.
tin button n.
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1642 in J. Lister Autobiog. (1842) 78 Michael Woodhead was shot upon his tin-buttons.
tin canister n.
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1775 J. Ash New Dict. Eng. Lang. Tin-canister, a canister made of tin.
tin farthing n.
tin filings n.
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1822 J. M. Good Study Med. I. 317 The anthelmintic virtues of tin-filings.
tin flagon n.
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1589 Exch. Rolls Scotl. XXII. 73 Aucht tin flauconis contenand ane point the pece.
tin metal n.
tin-nail n.
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1381–2 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1899) II. 389 In 300 tinnail et vernys empt. pro ostio parliamenti in claustro.
tin roof n.
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1912 E. Lutyens Let. May in M. Lutyens Edwin Lutyens (1980) vii. 105 It is..very English!—to have a capital as Simla is entirely of tin roofs.
1982 M. Duke Flashpoint x. 69 Untidy shanties with tin roofs.
tin saucepan n.
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1834 Tait's Edinb. Mag. New Ser. 1 181/2 I have known a blacksmith..unaware of the fact that what are called ‘tin saucepans’ are made of tinned plate iron.
tin-solder n.
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1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 189 Like as tin-soder doth knit and rejoyne a crackt peece of brasse.
tin spoon n.
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1669 S. Sturmy Summary of Penalties & Forfeitures in Mariners Mag. 2 Tin and Leaden Spoons.
tin thread n.
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1674 A. Cremer tr. J. Scheffer Hist. Lapland 105 Adorned with needle work of tin-thred upon diverse colour'd cloth.
tin trunk n.
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1922 E. H. Young Bridge Dividing ii. i. 79 Henrietta went to her room to unpack the brown tin trunk which contained all her possessions.
1981 R. Grayson Death of Abbé Didier xiv. 125 He could see in the bedroom two large tin trunks.
tin-ware n.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > base metal > [noun] > tin > tinware
stannary1668
tin-ware1758
tin-pottery1850
1758 C. Rea Jrnl. 7 July in Essex Inst. Hist. Coll. (1881) XVIII. 104 Considerable baggage, Iron, Copper and Tinware with other Household Furniture.
1812 ‘H. Bull-Us’ Diverting Hist. John Bull & Brother Jonathan xiii. 91 These people are also very ingenious in making tin ware, brooms, cider-brandy, wooden bowls, and tallow candles.
1860 G. W. S. Piesse Lab. Chem. Wonders 36 It is this substance which constitutes our famous tin-ware.
tin whistle n.
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1825 J. Neal Brother Jonathan I. 90 As if he were sounding a charge with..a tin-whistle.
(b) Of, pertaining or relating to, producing, or concerned with tin.
tin-amalgam n.
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1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 593 The glass..with its interior coating of tin-amalgam.
tin-dip n.
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1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 1253 [article Tin-plate] The final tin-dip is useful to remove the marks of the brush.
tin-farm n.
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1688Tinn farthings [see block tin n. at sense 1b].
1758 W. Borlase Nat. Hist. Cornwall 190 The tin-farm of Cornwall at this time amounted to..one hundred marks per annum.
tin-float n. [float n. 19]
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1681 N. Grew Musæum Regalis Societatis iii. ii. ii. 328 A Slag, remaining in the bottom of the Tin-Floate.
tin-furnace n.
tin-grain n.
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1695 J. Woodward Ess. Nat. Hist. Earth 193 Tin-Grains, and other Ores of Metalls.
tin-kiln n.
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1710 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum II Tin-kiln, is used for the Burning of the Mundick from the Tin-ore.
tin-law n.
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1612 J. Speed Theatre of Empire of Great Brit. i. xi. 21/1 This Earle made certain Tinne-Lawes, which with liberties and priuileges were confirmed by Earle Edmund his sonne.
tin-lode n.
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1839 H. T. De la Beche Rep. Geol. Cornwall x. 301 Wheal Friendship lode differs but a few degrees from east and west, as is also the case with Wheal Jewel tin-lode on the north of it.
tin-merchant n.
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1708 London Gaz. No. 4461/4 Richard Balhatchett,..Tinner, or Tinn-Merchant.
tin-mine n.
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society > occupation and work > workplace > places where raw materials are extracted > mine > [noun] > tin-mine
tin-mine1610
tinnery1769
1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 185 The incursions of the Mores, had stopped up the tinne mines of Spaine.
1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 1241 The tin-mines of the Malay peninsula.
tin ore n.
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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > mineral material > ore > [noun] > tin ore
tin ore1610
quittor1671
1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 185 Blacke tinne..is tinne-ore broken and washed.
tin-pit n.
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1766 J. Wesley Jrnl. 12 Sept. My horse was just stepping into a tin-pit.
tin-shop n.
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1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 336/1 The street-sellers of this order are supplied at the ‘tin-shops’.
1979 United States 1980–1 (Penguin Travel Guides) 546 The bakery, tin shop and garden house look..as if they were still open for business.
tin trade n.
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1839 H. T. De la Beche Rep. Geol. Cornwall xv. 525 The chief emporium of the tin trade was Bruges.
tin vein n.
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1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 185 The tinne veines in Germanie..were not as yet knowen.
(c) Put up or preserved in tins.
tin junk n.
tin milk n.
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1882 J. A. Lees & W. J. Clutterbuck Three in Norway v. 35 When we have only tin milk.
b. figurative in reference to tin as a base metal, esp. in comparison with silver: Mean, petty, worthless, counterfeit. (Cf. copper n.1 Compounds 1c) Frequently in (little) tin god. Also tin Jesus (only in the work of G. B. Shaw).
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > forgery, falsification > [adjective]
counterfeitedc1385
counterfeitc1386
trothlessa1393
bastard1397
forged1484
apocryphate1486
adulterate?a1509
mockisha1513
sophisticate1531
adulterine1542
adulterous1547
mock1548
forbate1558
coined1582
firking1594
feigned1598
adulterated1610
apocryphal1612
spurious1615
usurpeda1616
impostured1619
mock-madea1625
suppository1641
affictitious1656
pasteboard1659
sophisticated1673
flam1678
Brummagem1679
sham1681
belieda1718
fictitious1739
Birmingham1785
pinchbeck1790
brummish1803
Brum1805
flash1812
spurious1830
bogus1839
imitative1839
dummy1846
doctored1853
postiche1854
pseudo1854
Brummagemish1855
snide1859
inauthentic1860
fake1879
bum1884
Brummie1886
tin1886
filled1887
duff1889
faked1890
shicec1890
margarine1891
dud1904
Potemkin village1904
mocked-up1919
phoney baloney1936
four-flushing1942
bodgie1956
moody1958
disauthentic1960
bodgied1988
bodgied-up1988
the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [adjective] > insubstantial > showy or fanciful but insubstantial
frivol1492
fustian1523
triflinga1538
tirlery1546
trumpery1576
mockado1577
skipjack1597
flashy1598
trifle1607
fripperya1625
bagatelle1637
fingle-fangled1651
tawdry1696
sauntering1726
gimcrack1751
folderol1820
tin1886
shicec1890
cotton candy1951
candyfloss1957
1886 R. Kipling Departm. Ditties (1899) 24 The Little Tin Gods harried their little tin souls.
1902 Daily Chron. 10 July 3/3 Those funny little tin revolutions affected by the South American States.
1905 H. A. Vachell Hill ix. 187 I hope he's not going to make a sort of tin parson of you.
1909 Our German Cousins xv. 89 In Prussia alone there are 492 Landräte—a sort of district commissioner—all Government officials or directly in touch with the central government, and all little tin gods in their own district.
1917 S. Lewis Job xiii. 193 If they'd work like sixty they might get to be little tin gods on wheels like himself?
1928 R. Campbell Wayzgoose ii. 55 Of Tin Gods you may oft have heard or read But this one was entirely made of lead.
1930 G. B. Shaw What I really wrote about War xii. 368 The victorious Chauvinists..derided him [sc. Woodrow Wilson] as ‘a tin Jesus’.
1951 E. Coxhead One Green Bottle v. 115 We economists are going to be the little tin gods of this generation.
1978 ‘M. M. Kaye’ Far Pavilions vi. xxxvi. 534 With luck the ‘Tin Gods’ who had banished him to Gujerat..would leave him alone.
c. Objective and objective genitive.
(a) † tin caster n. Obsolete
tin-beater n.
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1848 W. K. Kelly tr. L. Blanc Hist. Ten Years II. 272 François Foucret, tin-beater,..living in Vaise.
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?1518 Cocke Lorelles Bote sig. B.vjv Balancers, tynne casters, and skryueners.
tin-maker n.
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1901 Westm. Gaz. 29 Nov. 8/2 The manufacturers are proceeding against the tin-makers, as the tins leaked.
tin-melter n.
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?1593 H. Chettle Kind-harts Dreame sig. D2v The receipte which the Tinne-melters wife ministred.
tin-miner n.
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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > miner > [noun] > one who mines metals > tin-miner
tinner1357
spalliard1625
tin-miner1899
1899 R. Munro Prehist. Scotl. i. 6 Diodorus Siculus makes mention of the tin-miners.
tin-pedler n.
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1812 J. K. Paulding Beauties Bro. Bull-Us 53 Feather-merchants, rag-men, tin-pedlars, and horse-jockies.
1841 R. W. Emerson Ess. (1876) 1st Ser. iv. 112 He hears and feels what you say of the seraphim, and of the tin-pedler.
tin smelter n.
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1885 List of Subscribers Exchange Syst. (United Telephone Co.) (ed. 6) 211 Tin Smelters... Redruth Tin Smelting Co.
1977 Whitaker's Almanack 757 Some of the country's more important industrial installations include..a tin smelter.
tin-stamper n.
(b)
tin-bearing n.
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1899 Daily News 30 Nov. 2/1 (Prospectus) Two immense deposits of tin-bearing drift.
tin-dressing n.
tin-getting n.
tin-mining n.
tin-smelting n.
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1885 List of Subscribers Exchange Syst. (United Telephone Co.) (ed. 6) 211 Redruth Tin Smelting Co.
tin-stamping n.
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1885 List of Subscribers Exchange Syst. (United Telephone Co.) (ed. 6) 151 Anglo-American Tin Stamping Co., Limited.
(c) Instrumental.
tin-poisoning n.
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1904 Westm. Gaz. 20 Sept. 3/2 These could not have saved him from tin-poisoning or a touch of ophthalmia.
tin-roofing n.
(d)
tin-lined adj.
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1869 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Agric. 1868 192 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (40th Congr., 3rd Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc.) XV Heated by circulated air..ascending in tin-lined flues.
1879 Mrs. A. G. F. E. James Indian Househ. Managem. 21 Articles..should be securely packed in tin boxes, or else in boxes tin-lined.
tin-mailed adj.
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1887 J. Ruskin Præterita II. xi. 401 The delicately tin-mailed and glittering spire of the village church.
tin-roofed adj.
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1882 J. G. Whittier in Atlantic Monthly Feb. 145 Its tin-roofed chapel stood Half hid in the dwarf spruce wood.
1888 R. Kipling in Pioneer Mail 5 Aug. 184/2 Walk into a huge, brick-built, tin-roofed stable.
(e) Parasynthetic.
tin-bottomed adj.
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1872 C. S. Calverley Fly Leaves 73 Hit a tinbottomed tray Hard with the fireshovel, hammer away!
tin-coloured adj.
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1606 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. (new ed.) ii. iv. 67 On his back he wears Tin-colour'd Tissue.
tin-handled adj.
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1896 Daily News 17 Nov. 3/5 He was given a tin-handled knife.
tin-tabled adj.
(f)
tin-white n.
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1806 W. Henry Epitome Chem. (ed. 4) 244 The colour of this metal [tellurium] is tin-white, verging to lead-grey.
1855 J. R. Leifchild Cornwall: Mines & Miners 39 Good specimens of tin-white cobalt.
(g)
tin-like adj.
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1846 C. G. F. Gore Sketches Eng. Char. 6 Many persons..remember the villanous old coinage of George III. [properly Queen Anne to Geo. II, still current under Geo. III, but gradually withdrawn after 1817], the tin-like sixpences, which added a word to the slang dictionary, and the button-like shillings, of which the image and superscription might have been Cæsar's.
d. Applied disparagingly to buildings (esp. Nonconformist churches) made partly of corrugated iron: tin chapel, tabernacle (cf. tabernacle n. 6b), etc. Also, tin town.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > building of specific construction > [noun]
framec1425
staddlec1563
sided1602
brick house1608
dobe1838
brick1844
adobe1852
shell1852
cinderblock1868
tin chapel1884
brick veneer1885
red brick1892
gambrel1917
weatherboard1925
Terrapin1949
Portakabin1963
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > town > [noun] > other types of town
country town1598
post town1635
Residenz1824
garden town1835
Residenzstadt1841
hometown1851
tin town1884
ghost town1894
new town1918
shopping strip1935
twin town1955
society > faith > artefacts > sanctuary or holy place > chapel > [noun] > nonconformist > made of corrugated iron
tin chapel1884
1884 Lichfield Diocesan Mag. Jan. 11/2 It was decided to build ‘a little bit of a tin tabernacle’.
1886 Marquess of Bute Let. 17 Apr. in D. H. Blair John Patrick 3rd Marquess of Bute (1921) ix. 154 The persistent wish of my Lord of Argyll to have what he calls an ‘opening’ of the tin temple in August.
1897 E. Edwards Journey through S. Afr. viii. 48 It would not be out of place to refer to Kimberley as a ‘tin’ town.
1919 A. T. Bassett S. Barnabas', Oxf. iv. 36 This was before the ‘tin’ church at Cowley S. John existed.
1929 J. B. Priestley Good Compan. i. vi. 242 That's the Station Refreshment Rooms, a tin place, just opposite.
1934 D. Thomas Let. Oct. in Sel. Lett. (1966) 143 We made a tour of the pubs..drinking to the..destruction of the Tin Bethels.
1937 New Statesman 13 Nov. 802/2 The several designs of late-Victorian tin-chapel in the slums of a northern industrial town.
1962 ‘J. le Carré’ Murder of Quality x. 108 That parson man from the tin tabernacle.
1979 ‘P. O'Connor’ Into Strong City ii. xxix. 103 Being born again had become no longer a derisive tin chapel slogan but a phrase to describe what was happening to me.
C2. Special combinations: See also tinfoil n., tin-glass n., tin kettle n., tin-pot n., tin-tack n., etc.† tin-blain n. Obsolete a blain or inflammatory swelling of the tongue in horses.† tin-boat n. Obsolete a pontoon or the like made of tin (or some alloy of tin): cf. pontoon n.1 1a.
tin-arsed adj. Australian and New Zealand slang very lucky.
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the world > action or operation > prosperity > [adjective] > favoured or attended by good fortune > specifically of a person
happya1387
lucky1478
well-starred1775
tinny1918
tin-arsed1937
1937 E. Partridge Dict. Slang 888/1 Tinny, adj... Occ. tin-arsed.
1971 R. F. Brissenden Winter Matins 25 This tin-arsed character Hasn't been there six months before he starts To fidget, gets to grizzling in his beer.
tin-back n. Australian slang a very lucky man.
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the world > action or operation > prosperity > [noun] > good fortune > fortunate person or thing > fortunate person
Sunday daughtera1350
white hen1540
fortunateling1605
fortunate1615
lucky dog1682
Sunday child1800
tin-back1899
1899 W. T. Goodge Hits! Skits! & Jingles! 150 And a ‘tin-back’ is a party Who's remarkable for luck.
tin-bath n. (bath n.1 18) the mass of melted tin in a tin-furnace.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > base metal > [noun] > tin > mass of melted tin
tin-bath1839
1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 1249 [article Tin-Refining] Into the tin-bath, billets of green wood are plunged.
tin bill n. see quot.
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society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > paper money > promissory notes or bills of exchange > [noun] > other promissory notes or bills
warrant1433
assignmentc1460
policy1623
navy bill1679
redraft1682
tally of pro1691
bank bill1694
bank seal bill1696
chequer-bill1697
assignation1704
chequer-note1705
mint bill1707
transport debenture1707
transport-bill1710
loan-bill1722
treasury note1756
tin bill1778
treasury-bill1798
rescription1800
short bill1808
treasury-warrant1834
sight bill1853
short-paper1912
treasuries1922
T.B.1936
T.D.R.1948
T-Bill1982
1778 W. Pryce Mineralogia Cornubiensis v. iv. 291 The manner of agreeing for or buying the Tin Ore..being to give Tin bills or promissory notes to the owners thereof.
1778 W. Pryce Mineralogia Cornubiensis v. iv. 292 This makes what they call the Tin bill trade so noted in this county.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of horses > [noun] > disorders of mouth
barblec1440
barb?1523
lampas?1523
giggs1566
rampone1580
camery1587
flap1587
frounce1587
palamie1600
tin-blain1614
lick1827
1614 G. Markham Cheape & Good Husbandry (1668) i. vi. 74 For the Blain on the tongue, of some called the Tin-blain, it is a blister which groweth at the roots of the tongue.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel of specific construction or shape > flat-bottomed boat > [noun] > used as support, wharf, or gate
pont1631
pontoon1676
tin-boat1677
wharf-boat1849
caisson1854
caisson-gate1866
1677 London Gaz. No. 1199/3 Some of the biggest Cannon out of the Magazine at Delft, and the Tin Boats from the Hague.
1692 Siege Lymerick 4 This day there came into our Camp Twenty Nine Tin-Boats.
tin-bound n. = bound n.1 3c.
tin-bound v. (transitive) to mark out the boundaries of (a piece of ground) for tin-mining.
ΚΠ
1889 Cent. Dict. VIII. 6344 Tin-bound, v. t.
tin-bounder n.
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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > miner > [noun] > one who mines metals > tin-miner > specific
spadiard1610
bounder1702
stream-tinner1839
tin-streamer1839
tin-bounder1865
1865 Standard 11 July The Beam mine had been worked by tin bounders under the custom of Cornwall.
tin-bounding n. and adj.
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society > occupation and work > industry > mining > [noun] > staking claims > in tin-mining
tin-bounding1865
1865 Standard 11 July Up to 1858 the mine had been worked under the custom of tin bounding.
1883 F. Pollock Land Laws (1887) ii. 50 In Cornwall..called ‘tin-bounding’, from the setting out of the working by bounds which is the adventurer's first step towards establishing his claim.
tin can n. (a) (see sense 2a above); (b) slang (chiefly U.S.), a warship, esp. a destroyer (often, one of an older design); also applied to a submarine.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > [noun] > made of tin
tin can1770
tin1795
society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > war vessel > [noun]
great shipa1400
ship-of-war1479
man-of-war1484
warship1533
war-man1546
rostrum1782
U.S.S.a1912
warcraft1918
tin can1937
1770 G. Washington Diary 18 Nov. (1925) I. 442 I was to pay 6 Dollars and give them a Quart Tinn Can.
1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Tin-can, a metal vessel for holding liquids.
1877 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Tin Can, the ordinary name for the cans of tinned iron now so widely used.
1937 Sun (Baltimore) 20 Apr. 15/3 Of the forty-seven destroyers out with the United States fleet..thirty-nine are the ‘tin cans’ of the World War days.
1959 N.Z. Listener 10 July 5/3 With us were the first warships I had seen in the heavy seas, and some of the American tin cans they gave us under Lease Lend.
1974 H. Gruppe Truxton Cipher iii. 31 He had noticed the Admiral's wince at Pozo's use of the archaic phrase ‘tin cans’ to denote destroyers.
1981 G. Markstein Ultimate Issue 27 ‘Boy, you must have been cramped in that sub.’.. ‘Plenty of space. You'd be surprised how roomy those tin cans are.’
tin-can v. (cf. tin-kettle v.);transitive.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > courtesy > courteous act or expression > use courteous actions or expressions to [verb (transitive)] > greet or salute > by striking tin cans
tin-can1957
1957 J. Frame Owls do Cry ii. xix. 84 We tin-canned them and threw rice at them.
tin-canning n. New Zealand a greeting or serenading on a special occasion by beating tin cans.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > courtesy > courteous act or expression > [noun] > greeting or salutation > by beating tin cans
tin-canning1926
1926 A. F. Webb Miss Peters' Special vii. 62 A promoter of most of the tin-canning parties when anyone got married.
1953 M. C. Scott Breakfast at Six (1960) ii. 19 The chaps are coming up tonight. Tin-canning. The usual thing. Thought I'd better warn you.
tin-clad adj. and n. (a) adj. covered with tin; (b) n. [after iron-clad] a lightly armoured boat.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > war vessel > [noun] > iron-clad or armoured ship > lightly
tin-clad1873
society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > base metal > [adjective] > made of tin > covered with tin
tin-clad1873
1873 W. D. Howells Chance Acquaintance ii. 37 The slender tin-clad spire of its church.
1887 Sci. Amer. 23 Apr. 263/3 He converted..seven transports into what were called ‘tinclads’, or musket-proof gunboats.
tin disease n. = tin pest n. below.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > base metal > [noun] > tin > crumbling of pure tin
tin pest1902
tin disease1908
1908 H. C. Cooper tr. A. F. Holleman Text-bk. Inorg. Chem. (ed. 3) 275 It [sc. white tin] turns very slowly into gray tin, falling to powder, probably because of the increase in volume (this phenomenon is called the ‘tin-disease’).
1965 C. S. G. Phillips & R. J. P. Williams Inorg. Chem. I. vii. 246 In cold countries the disintegration of organ pipes and other tin objects has..been observed, and the phenomenon was known as tin disease.
tin ear n. (a) slang = cauliflower ear n. at cauliflower n. Compounds 2; (b) colloquial (usually with indefinite article), tone-deafness, aural insensitivity, esp. in to have a tin ear; also figurative.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > type or quality of hearing > [verb (intransitive)] > insensitive
to have a tin ear1923
the world > health and disease > ill health > deformity > deformities of specific parts > [noun] > ear
cauliflower ear1909
tin ear1923
1923 Dial. Notes 5 239 Tin ear on, to put a, v. phr., To strike or beat, especially, about the head.
1935 Peabody Bull. (Baltimore) Dec. 42/2 A player has a ‘tin ear’ when his intonation is poor and his playing is mechanical.
1958 Times Lit. Suppl. 24 Jan. 39/2 He gives the, possibly false, impression, that he has a ‘tin ear’, as his countrymen put it, for many of the popular art-forms he discusses.
1962 M. Young & P. Willmott Family & Kinship in E. London (rev. ed.) i. vi. 101 A man with skill as a boxer, and a ‘tin ear’ (cauliflower ear) to prove it, had..prestige.
1975 Times 17 Apr. 14/4 Manson had a tin ear but..the Beach Boys recorded at least one of his songs.
1981 L. Deighton XPD xviii. 159 ‘Do you play the piano?’.. ‘My wife insisted I get it for Billy, but that kid's got a tin ear.’
tin-eared adj.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > type or quality of hearing > [adjective] > poor hearing > insensitive
tin-eared1975
1975 New Yorker 28 Apr. 130/1 Who but a tin-eared organ fancier.. can bear to listen to elaborate contrapuntal textures sounded in consecutive fifths?
tin-enamel n. white tin-glaze decorated in enamel colours.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > painting or coating materials > [noun] > glaze > for ceramics or pottery > types of
steel lustre1829
moonlight lustre1837
stone-oil1838
silver lustre1845
porcelain enamel1852
marzacotto1873
overglaze1880
under-glaze1882
coperta1885
tiger's-eye1893
tin-glaze1897
hare's fur1899
lead-glaze1899
tin-enamel1900
rouge flambé1902
Sunderland lustre1903
transmutation glaze1904
Mohammedan blue1905
peach bloom1937
sang-de-bœuf1957
lead-lustre-
1900 F. Litchfield Pottery & Porcelain ii. 14 Stanniferous or tin-enamel.
1964 H. Hodges Artifacts ii. 51 Today the terms faience, majolica and tin-enamel glaze are all variously applied to mean wares with a red body covered with a tin-opacified lead glaze which has been coloured with over-glaze designs.
1981 ‘J. Gash’ Vatican Rip x. 86 Forged nineteenth-century tin-enamel porcelain maiolicas.
tin-enamelled adj.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > plated or coated metal > [adjective] > coated with vitreous substance
annealed1552
enamelled1621
encaustic1656
porcelain-enamelled1895
stove-enamelled1912
porcelainized1930
tin-enamelled1933
porcelanized1958
society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > painting or coating materials > [adjective] > glazed > types of ceramic or pottery glaze
stanniferous1823
raw1825
flambé1886
tea-dust1897
monastic1909
tin-enamelled1933
starved1964
1933 Burlington Mag. July 16/1 The tin-enamelled ware, façon de Pise, especially for the shelves of pharmacies and still-rooms.
1974 Country Life 5 Dec. 1728/1 Faience is tin-enamelled earthenware, not porcelain.
tin-field n. a tract of country yielding tin.
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the world > the earth > minerals > mineral sources > [noun] > tract of land
ground1548
coalfield1734
gas field1833
tin-ground1839
gold-diggings1848
goldfield1848
oilfield1863
oil belt1865
flat1869
tin-field1898
copper belt1955
oil patch1958
1898 Daily News 26 Apr. 9/4 The tin wash and tailings of the leading tin sluicing mines of the Ringarooma Tinfield.
1907 Daily Chron. 28 Sept. 5/4 Prospectors in the Government tin-fields at Waterberg.
tin fish n. see fish n.1 1f.
tin-floor n. (a) a floor made of tin; (b) a horizontal course or stratum of tin ore: see floor n.1 12.
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the world > food and drink > drink > manufacture of alcoholic drink > brewing > [noun] > surface for hop-drying
tin-floor1707
the world > the earth > minerals > mineral deposits > [noun] > course > of tin ore
stream1778
tin-floor1839
1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry (1721) I. 185 On this Tin-floor or Bed may the Hops be turned..with less expence of Fuel.
1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 1241 The stanniferous small veins,..interposed between certain rocks,..are commonly called tin-floors.
tin-frame n. see quot.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > equipment for treating ores > [noun] > for washing ore > for tin
rack1839
rack-table1839
tin-frame1881
1881 Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers 1880–1 9 186 Tin-frame, Corn[wall], a sleeping-table used in dressing tin-ore slimes, and discharged by turning it upon an axis..and then dashing water over it.
tin-glaze n. a glaze for fine pottery, having an oxide of tin as a basis.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > painting or coating materials > [noun] > glaze > for ceramics or pottery > types of
steel lustre1829
moonlight lustre1837
stone-oil1838
silver lustre1845
porcelain enamel1852
marzacotto1873
overglaze1880
under-glaze1882
coperta1885
tiger's-eye1893
tin-glaze1897
hare's fur1899
lead-glaze1899
tin-enamel1900
rouge flambé1902
Sunderland lustre1903
transmutation glaze1904
Mohammedan blue1905
peach bloom1937
sang-de-bœuf1957
lead-lustre-
1897 C. F. Binns Ceramic Technol. ii. 17 These wares were uniformly coated with opaque tin glazes.
1975 Times 18 Feb. 13/1 Tin glaze earthenware chalice.
tin-glazed adj.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > clay compositions > baked clay > pottery or ceramics > [adjective] > glazed in specific way
crazed1874
plumbeous1875
lustred1893
lead-glazed1899
tin-glazed1904
faienced1912
smear-glazed1963
1904 Daily Chron. 7 July 8/4 The tin-glazed ware of Delft, and the salt-glazed stoneware of Germany.
tin-gravel n. gravel containing tin ore, which is obtained by streaming.
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the world > the earth > minerals > mineral sources > [noun] > gravel containing tin
tin-stream1855
tin-gravel1874
1874 J. H. Collins Princ. Metal Mining (1875) ix. 55 The deposit of tin gravel at the mouth of the Carnon Valley.
tin-ground n. = tin-field n.
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the world > the earth > minerals > mineral sources > [noun] > tract of land
ground1548
coalfield1734
gas field1833
tin-ground1839
gold-diggings1848
goldfield1848
oilfield1863
oil belt1865
flat1869
tin-field1898
copper belt1955
oil patch1958
1839 H. T. De la Beche Rep. Geol. Cornwall xiii. 401 To fill up the space once occupied by the tin-ground.
tin-hammer n. a hammer with a heavy tin head, used to drive home tightly fitting bolts, etc.
tin hare n. slang (chiefly Australian) = electric hare n. at electric adj. and n. Compounds 1b; also fig. (in quot. 1941 a nickname for a train).
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > greyhound racing > [noun] > electric hare
electric hare1920
rabbit1927
tin hare1934
1934 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Tin hare.
1941 K. Tennant Battlers 159 The ‘Tin Hare's’ whistle was heard in the distance.
1969 Northern Territory News (Darwin) (Focus '69 Suppl.) 109/1 Many top notch tin hare chasers tried at open coursing are ‘left for dead’ by very ordinary live hare chasers.
tin helmet n. = tin hat n. 1a.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > armour > helmet > [noun] > steel helmet
tin hat1799
steel helmet1916
battle bowler1925
tin helmet1934
1934 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Tin helmet.
1942 E. Waugh Put out More Flags i. 40 A man in a tin helmet shouted.., ‘Take cover, there.’
1980 ‘T. Hinde’ Sir Henry & Sons i. 10 He mounted a tin helmet on the top of a rifle.
tin-helmeted adj.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > armour > helmet > [adjective] > wearing steel helmet
tin-hatted1918
steel-helmeted1926
tin-helmeted1939
1939 ‘N. Blake’ Smiler with Knife xi. 156 The black-faced miners, tin-helmeted.
1983 C. Dexter Riddle of Third Mile i. 10 The tin-helmeted head spattered with blood.
tin-house n. (a) a house constructed of tin; (b) a building where tin is worked.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > a house > types of house > [noun] > house of specific material or construction
thatch-house1521
slate house1554
thack housec1600
frame house1627
log-house1662
straw1665
thatch1693
tin-house1798
fog house1799
leaf house1811
rock house1818
black house1819
blockhouse1821
white house1824
slab-and-bark house1826
brown house1845
brush house1854
soddy1877
hurdle-housea1879
bottle house1913
stucco1922
prefab1942
Portal house1944
Airey1945
yali1962
society > occupation and work > workplace > places for working with specific materials > place for working with metal > [noun] > tin
tin-work1474
tin-house1904
1798 H. M. Williams Tour Switzerland I. x. 133 This admirable mimick-creation of silver torrents, mossy forests, tin-houses and glass lakes.
1904 Daily News 19 Nov. 12 The mills and tin house were stopped for nearly an hour.
tin-liquor n. a solution of tin in strong acid mixed with common salt, used as a mordant in dyeing.
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the world > matter > colour > colouring > colouring matter > [noun] > dye > mordant or fixative
styptic1686
base1778
lodh1781
mordant1791
mordicant1799
tin-mordant1839
tin-liquor1858
fixative1870
tin-spirits1877
striker1884
1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Tin-liquor.
Tin Lizzie n. see Lizzie n. 2.
tin-loaf n. a loaf baked in a tin, a pan-loaf.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > bread > loaf > [noun] > pan- or tin-loaf
tinned loafc950
brick1698
brick loaf1723
brick bread1762
pan-loaf1846
pan bread1856
tin-loaf1858
tin1957
pan1978
1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products 232/1 The cottage loaf; tin loaves.
tin-mordant n. a mordant consisting of a solution of tin in acid, as tin-liquor.
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the world > matter > colour > colouring > colouring matter > [noun] > dye > mordant or fixative
styptic1686
base1778
lodh1781
mordant1791
mordicant1799
tin-mordant1839
tin-liquor1858
fixative1870
tin-spirits1877
striker1884
1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 1252 Tin mordants, for dyeing scarlet.
tin-mouth n. a sun-fish found in the Mississippi, the crappie.
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the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > family Centrarchidae (sun-fish) > [noun] > member of genus Pomoxys > pomoxys annularis (crappie)
crappie1861
Campbellite1872
new light1877
tin-mouth1878
1878 C. Hallock Sportsman's Gaz. 378 Sand Perch, or Bachelor Perch; called also ‘Tin-Mouth’.
1888 G. B. Goode Amer. Fishes 71 Pomoxys annularis..has other names of local application as ‘Tin Mouth’, ‘Bridge Perch’.
tin-opener n. an instrument for opening soldered tins.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > [noun] > tin-opener
can-opener1862
tin-opener1895
1895 Daily News 21 June 3/7 Duggan and Farrell struck at her with a tin opener.
tin pest n. the crumbling of pure tin that occurs at low temperatures as the ordinary white allotrope changes to grey tin.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > base metal > [noun] > tin > crumbling of pure tin
tin pest1902
tin disease1908
1902 H. C. Cooper tr. A. F. Holleman Text-bk. Inorg. Chem. 261 It [sc. white tin] turns very slowly into gray tin, falling to powder (this phenomenon is called the tin-pest).
1933 Jrnl. Royal Aeronaut. Soc. 37 540 This change does not proceed with disintegrating effects until considerably lower temperatures, when the ‘Tin-Pest’, experienced in organ-pipes, during cold winters on the Continent, occurs.
1960 E. S. Hedges Tin & its Alloys i. 2 There seems to be a paucity of very ancient objects made entirely of tin—a lack which is sometimes laid at the door of the disintegration of tin through ‘tin pest’.
tin printing n. (see quot. 1957).
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > printmaking > surface and planographic printing > lithography > [noun] > types of
autography1828
chromolithography1839
lithochromatography1843
lithochrysography1845
lithochromatic1846
lithochrome1854
oleography1870
autolithography1874
lithochromy1885
tin printing1887
typo-etching1888
transfer-lithography1897
EUV1995
1887 Amer. Lithographer & Printer 2 Apr. 192/3 Could you give me something practical on tin printing?
1957 Encycl. Brit. XIV. 214/1 Tin Printing, which was introduced about 1875, is the application of the lithographic process to the decoration of metal plate. A substantial percentage of can-label work formerly done by the paper lithographer has in recent years gone to the tin lithographers... Sheets of prepared tin..are fed into the press and are then oven dried at high temperature, this procedure being repeated for each additional colour.
1968 Gloss. Terms Offset Lithogr. Printing (B.S.I.) 33 Tin printing machine, (deprecated) a machine for printing on sheet metal.
tin-pulp n. the precipitate from a solution of tin chloride and yellow prussiate of potash, used for dyeing.
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the world > matter > colour > colouring > colouring matter > [noun] > dye > types of dyes
pallOE
sanders1329
raddlea1350
nutgallc1450
bark1565
logwood1581
sanders-wood1615
catechu1682
cate1698
cachou1708
valonia1722
India wood1742
cutch1759
alizari1769
standard1808
iron buff1836
colorine1838
acid dye1840
garancin1843
French tub1846
suranji1848
morindin1849
water blue1851
union dye1852
indigo-carmine1855
hernant1858
pigment colour1862
rosaniline1862
rose aniline1862
bezetta1863
bottom1863
acid colour1873
paraphenylenediamine1873
indigo-extract1874
tin-pulp1874
phthalein1875
sightening1875
chrome1876
rose bengal1878
azo-colours1879
azine1887
basic dye1892
chromotrope1893
garance1896
ice colour1896
xylochrome1898
cross-dye1901
indanthrene1901
Lithol1903
vat dye1903
thioindigo1906
para red1907
vat colour1912
vat dyestuff1914
indanthrone1920
ionamine1922
Soledon1924
Solochrome1924
Solacet1938
indigoid1939
thioindigoid1943
fluorol1956
Procion1956
1874 W. Crookes Pract. Handbk. Dyeing ii. i. 166 The so-called prussiate of tin, or tin-pulp, is chiefly used as an ingredient in printing steam-blues on cotton.
tin-putty n. putty-powder.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > polishing > [noun] > polish > types of
pumice1422
emery1481
foam of copperas1538
pumex1589
emery-stone1610
smiris1610
putty1663
rottenstone1677
tutty1731
French rouge?1745
rotstone1767
plate powder1786
emery-powder18..
rouge1808
waxing1825
black lead1830
tin-putty1839
red stuff1844
stove-polish1858
crocusa1861
crocus-powder1873
furniture cream1873
grit-emery1884
silver polish1895
Ronuk1896
Brasso1905
floor polish1907
lavender cream1926
lavender polish1961
lavender wax1970
1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 801 The last polish is given [to marble] with tin-putty.
tin pyrites n. [translating German Zinkies (coined by A. G. Werner 1789, in Bergmännisches Jrnl. 1 385)] = stannite n. 2.
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the world > the earth > minerals > types of mineral > sulphides and related minerals > [noun] > sphalenite group > others
tin pyrites1796
stannine1843
onofrite1849
stannite1868
guadalcazarite1875
stilleite1957
kësterite1958
stannoidite1969
1796 R. Kirwan Elements Mineral. (ed. 2) II. 75 Tin Pyrites.
1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 1241 There are only two ores of tin; the peroxide, or tin-stone, and tin pyrites.
tin-rock n. a variety of rock pigeon.
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the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Columbiformes (pigeons, etc.) > [noun] > family Columbidae > genus Columba > columba livia (rock-dove)
rock dove1610
rock pigeon1611
sea-pigeon1620
blue pigeon1676
rockier1780
rocker1802
biset1834
rock1854
sod1885
tin-rock1892
1892 W. W. Greener Breech-loader 237 The greater portion of the pigeons used for trap shooting are brought over from that port [Antwerp], and sold here as Tin Rocks.
tin-salt n. the crystalline hydrated chloride of tin, SnCl22H2O, obtained by dissolving tin in hot hydrochloric acid; also, with plural, any salt of tin.
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the world > matter > chemistry > chemical substances > salts > [noun] > salts named by atomic number > haloids > chlorides or chlorates > other specific named
sal ammoniacc1325
salt of steel1704
horn-lead1783
nitromuriate1796
oxymuriate1797
hyperoxymuriate1806
argentane1812
magnesane1812
tellurane1812
oxychlorate1818
hypochlorite1849
tin-salt1849
perchlorate1853
carbon tetrachloride1866
nickel chloride1868
opal blue1880
1849 D. Campbell Pract. Text-bk. Inorg. Chem. 229 Boiling with phosphorous acid or tin salt.
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tin-saw n. ‘a saw used by bricklayers for cutting kerfs in bricks’ (E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. 1877).
tin-scrap n. the waste tin-plate in the manufacture of tin-ware.
tin-silver n. imitation silver made of tin.
tin-spar n. (see quot. 1796).
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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > rock > mineral or chemical composition > [noun] > rock containing specific mineral
alum rockc1637
silver-spat1668
salt-rock1670
tin-spar1681
garnet-rock1794
mimophyre1824
crystalline1856
haüynophyr1865
minette1866
phosphate rock1869
1681 N. Grew Musæum Regalis Societatis iii. i. v. 307 A Yellow Tin-Spar from Ireland.
1796 R. Kirwan Elements Mineral. (ed. 2) II. 198 The yellowish grey [tin stone] is often called Tinspar.
tin-spirits n. = tin-liquor n.
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the world > matter > colour > colouring > colouring matter > [noun] > dye > mordant or fixative
styptic1686
base1778
lodh1781
mordant1791
mordicant1799
tin-mordant1839
tin-liquor1858
fixative1870
tin-spirits1877
striker1884
1877 O'Neill in Encycl. Brit. VII. 574/2 The solution of tin used by dyers..commonly called ‘tin spirits’.
tin-stuff n. a miner's name for tin ore.
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the world > the earth > minerals > ore > [noun] > metal ore > tin ore
tin-stone1602
crop1778
row1778
stream-tin1778
tin-stuff1778
wood-tin1787
stannolite1843
toad's eye tin1850
cassiterite1858
tin wash1898
1778 W. Pryce Mineralogia Cornubiensis 67 The Tinners or Miners..give it the name of Tin-stuff.
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tin tabernacle n. colloquial a corrugated iron place of worship; an ‘iron church’.
tin-vat n. a vessel in which tin-liquor is kept.
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the world > matter > colour > colouring > dyeing > [noun] > equipment used
litting-lead1485–6
vat1548
battery1737
deviling1737
winch1740
shaker1791
pastel-vat1838
wince1839
wincing-machine1839
tin-vat1865
jigger1893
jig1942
1865–72 H. Watts Dict. Chem. III. 252 In the tin-vat, commonly used for calico-printing, the indigo is reduced by a solution of stannous oxide in caustic potash or soda.
1898Tin wash [see sense 2a]. tin wash n. stream tin (see stream tin n. at sense 1b).
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the world > the earth > minerals > ore > [noun] > metal ore > tin ore
tin-stone1602
crop1778
row1778
stream-tin1778
tin-stuff1778
wood-tin1787
stannolite1843
toad's eye tin1850
cassiterite1858
tin wash1898
1898 Daily News 26 Apr. 9/4 The tin wash and tailings of the leading tin sluicing mines of the Ringarooma Tinfield.
tin-washing n. = tin-streaming n. at tin-stream n. Derivatives; plural works where tin-streaming is done.
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society > occupation and work > industry > mining > [noun] > washing or streaming > for tin
tin-streaming1839
tin-washing1839
buddling1869
1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 1253 Paid for brushing and tin-washing 225 plates.
1869 A. R. Wallace Malay Archipel. I. 43 Extensive tin-washings, employing over a thousand Chinese.
tin wedding n. originally U.S. the tenth anniversary of a wedding (cf. wedding n. 2b).
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the world > time > particular time > an anniversary > [noun] > wedding anniversary
wedding-anniversarya1684
silver wedding1849
golden wedding1850
tin wedding1863
pearl wedding1869
wooden wedding1870
diamond wedding1872
ruby wedding1879
1863 Harper's Mag. Nov. 856/2 Mr Jones's people made him a tin-wedding visit on the tenth anniversary of his marriage.
1981 N.Y. Times 19 July ii. 25/4 A tin wedding bouquet and a brooch of jewelled flowers sit side by side.
tin-witts n. see quots.
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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > mineral material > ore > [noun] > tin ore > types of
black tin1602
tin-witts1853
witts1853
1853 A. Ure Dict. Arts (ed. 4) II. 858 ‘Tin witts’: the ore obtained from the stamp floors.
1881 Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers 1880–1 9 186 Tin-witts, Corn[wall], the product of the first dressing of tin-ores, containing, besides tinstone, other heavy minerals (wolfram and metallic sulphides).
tinwoman n. a woman who sells tin (cf. tinman n.).
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society > trade and finance > selling > seller > sellers of specific things > [noun] > sellers of other specific things
soaper?c1225
oilman1275
smear-monger1297
upholder1333
basket-seller?1518
broom-seller?1518
upholster1554
rod-woman1602
starchwoman1604
pin manc1680
colour seller1685
potato-woman1697
printseller1700
rag-seller1700
Greenwich barber1785
sandboy1821
iceman1834
umbrella man1851
fly-boy1861
snuff-boxera1871
pedlar1872
snake-boy1873
bric-a-brac man1876
tinwoman1884
resurrectionist1888
butch1891
paanwallah1955
1884 M. E. Wilkins in Harper's Mag. June 29/2 Her customers..had grown used to the novelty of a tinwoman, instead of a tinman.
tin-work n. often plural tin-works a place where tin is worked or manufactured.
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society > occupation and work > workplace > places for working with specific materials > place for working with metal > [noun] > tin
tin-work1474
tin-house1904
1474–5 Rolls of Parl.: Edward IV (Electronic ed.) Parl. Oct. 1472 3rd Roll §31. m. 20 A tynwerk within the said counte of Cornewaill, called the myne of the cleker.
1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 184 Of these Mines or tinne-workes, there be two kinds.
1839 H. T. De la Beche Rep. Geol. Cornwall xiii. 408 An epoch corresponding with that to which the Cornish stream tin-works belong.
tin-worker n.
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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > workers with specific materials > metalworker > [noun] > workers with tin
whitesmith1260
tinner1272
tin-worker1610
tinman1611
white-iron smith1711
white iron man1765
whitster1823
tinsmith1858
1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 185 Hee delivered rules and precepts to these Tinne-workers.
tin-working n.
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society > occupation and work > industry > mining > [adjective] > mining specific mineral
tin-working1827
1827 G. Higgins Celtic Druids Pref. 51 Before this tin-working nation dived into the bowels of the earth.
tin-worm n. the ‘worm’ or spiral tube of a still, made of tin.
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the world > matter > chemistry > equipment or apparatus > [noun] > general vessels > retorts or stills > parts of
cane1430
nose1559
steal1585
helm1594
helmet1599
tin-worm1800
tubulure1800
tubulature1830
tubulusc1900
1800 tr. E. J. B. Bouillon-Lagrange Man. Course Chem. II. 53 The tin-worms of stills.
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elliptical for tin-loaf n. at Compounds 2 below.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > bread > loaf > [noun] > pan- or tin-loaf
tinned loafc950
brick1698
brick loaf1723
brick bread1762
pan-loaf1846
pan bread1856
tin-loaf1858
tin1957
pan1978
1957 J. Scade in Sheppard & Newton Story of Bread xiii. 136 Tin loaves are normally made from softer doughs than..the crusty type of bread... Square tin. Produced from the same dough as above in tins measuring..7 × 5 × 4½ inches.
1967 J. Sizer Craft Breadmaking 15/2 In this section I will deal with some of the many types of tin loaves which are made in the trade... Popular loaves are the 14 oz. and 1¾ lb. tin.
1987 Independent 15 Jan. 2/5 The line of chaps..does not wait for mass-produced sliced white. Their target was a local baker where they hoped for a large wholemeal, a long tin, or a crusty cob.
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colloquial (originally and chiefly British). [ < the proprietary slogan Does exactly what it says on the tin, apparently originally used in an advertisement for wood varnish.] to do (exactly) what it says on the tin and variants: to be or do exactly what one would expect judging by name or reputation; to do what is claimed.
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1997 Campaign 14 Feb. 18 The Negotiation Centre..does exactly what it says on the tin.
1999 Muzik June 100/2 ‘Make it Rock’ does exactly what it says on the tin, courtesy of a roof-raising breakdown.
2001 Which? Dec. 16/2 A personal digital assistant..should do exactly what it says on the tin. It should help you out, make your life a bit easier.
2004 Snowboard UK Jan. 22/2 Essentially ‘doing what it says on the tin’, these [sc. lowbacks] were super short, stubbly little things on the back of bindings.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
tinv.
/tɪn/, U.S. /tɪn/ 1. transitive. To cover with a thin deposit of tin; to coat or plate with tin.
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society > occupation and work > industry > working with specific materials > working with metal > work with metal [verb (transitive)] > coat or cover with metal > with specific metal
tin1398
leadc1440
ironc1450
lay1472
copper1530
braze1552
silverize1605
foliate1665
plate1686
whiten1687
foil1714
blanch1729
quicken1738
amalgam1789
quick1790
aluminize1791
plate1791
zincify1801
platinize1825
resilver1832
galvanize1839
electroplate1843
zinc1843
electro-silver1851
platinate1858
electrotin1859
white-lead1863
palladiumize1864
white-metal1864
brassc1865
nickelize1865
nickel-plate1872
nickel1875
stopper1884
electro1891
sherardize1904
steel1911
stellite1934
flame-plate1954
steel-face1961
1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum xvi. xxxvii. (Tollem. MS.) Brasen vessel ben sone reed and rousti..and haue an yuel sauoure and smel, but þey be tynned.
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 494/1 Tynnyn wythe tynne, stanno.
1599 A. M. tr. O. Gaebelkhover Bk. Physicke 54/1 Take a copper basen which is not tinned.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. xxxiv. xvii. 517 A devise to tin pots, pans, and other peeces of brasse..with white lead or tinglasse.
1747 H. Glasse Art of Cookery v. 68 Take great Care the Pots or Sauce-pans..be well tinned, for fear of giving the Broths or Soops any brassy Taste.
1816 P. Cleaveland Elem. Treat. Mineral. & Geol. 525 Tin-plate..consists of iron, whose surface is tinned to prevent oxidation.
1832 C. Babbage Econ. Machinery & Manuf. xviii. 144 The man who pickles and tins the pins.
2. In soldering iron, brass, etc., To perform the preliminary process of heating the surfaces and covering them with a thin coating of the solder.
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society > occupation and work > industry > working with specific materials > working with metal > work with metal [verb (transitive)] > solder > with specific technique or material
braze1678
plumba1722
soft-solder1769
spelter1861
tin1873
silver-solder1889
to blow on1893
1873 E. Spon Workshop Receipts (1888) 1st Ser. 366/1 First clean the iron and brass well and then tin them before placing them together for soldering... The articles can be tinned by rubbing while hot with rosin; then rubbing them over with solder.
3. To put up or seal (provisions) in a tin for preservation; to can. (In quot. 1887 intransitive for passive.)
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preserving or pickling > pickle or preserve [verb (transitive)] > preserve by canning
can1855
tin1887
1887 Cassell's Mag. Feb. 148 Some fish ‘tin’ well, others do not.
1890 Daily News 16 Apr. 6/2 The method of tinning milk for use of troops.
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