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Tinning   Listen
noun
Tinning  n.  
1.
The act, art, or process of covering or coating anything with melted tin, or with tin foil, as kitchen utensils, locks, and the like.
2.
The covering or lining of tin thus put on.





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"Tinning" Quotes from Famous Books



... the "Philosophical Transactions," considered that the vessel might be of Roman workman-ship; as he states that on the handle was stamped a name, C. ARAT., which he interprets Caius Aratus. "It appears," he adds, "to have been tinned; but almost all the coating had been worn off.... The art of tinning copper was understood and practised by the Romans, although it is commonly supposed to be ...
— Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine • William Carew Hazlitt


Words linked to "Tinning" :   application, coating, tin-plating, tin


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