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Definition of tin dish in English: tin dishnoun Australian, NZ A shallow container used by a prospector for separating gold from soil or gravel. my equipment consisted of a tent, spade, tin dish, and about a week's supply of provisions Example sentencesExamples - He goes on the land with pick and shovel and tin dish to search, examine, and report.
- The idea is to put this fine earth into one tin dish, and holding it high up in the air, pour it down into another.
- The tools employed by persons looking for new gold fields are extremely simple, and consist of a crow-bar, pick-axe, shovel, and a large round flat-bottomed tin dish.
- His chief merit lies in the fact that he showed the real discoverers of the first payable gold-field in Australia the way in which to prospect with a tin-dish.
- The simplest method of extracting the gold is to wash the "dirt," as it is called, in a tin dish.
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