Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To remove tin from: as, to
untin waste tin-plates.
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Examples
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A fox-hound or a kangaroo-dog is always of the same opinion as Mr. Jorrocks: -- "All time is wasted what isn't spent in 'untin'."
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And two or three are 'untin' whom I never seed afore;
Songs Of Action Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1898
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And two or three are 'untin' whom I never seed afore;
Songs of Action Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1898
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You'll be all right and them blokes as is 'untin' for you won't be able to twig you from sole leather.
The Rose in the Ring George Barr McCutcheon 1897
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When in there rushed a 'untin' man, all travel-stained and muddy,
Songs Of The Road Arthur Conan Doyle 1894
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And two or three are 'untin' whom I never seed afore;
Songs of Action Arthur Conan Doyle 1894
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"It's like a 'ole in your coat made by a tear," says 'e; "a haccident as may' appen to-morrer to the Prince of Wales 'isself upon the' untin 'field, "' e says.
Philistia Grant Allen 1873
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No man's fonder of 'untin' than I am, but to turn out on sich a day as this would be a daring -- a desperate violation of all the laws of registered propriety.
Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour Robert Smith Surtees 1833
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We've given 'em the slip for the nonce, but sooner o 'later the absence o' tracks o 'mention of us south o' 'ere will hit' im as distinctly peculiar and they'll start 'untin' for us elsewhere. "
The Day of the Dissonance Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1984
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We've given 'em the slip for the nonce, but sooner o 'later the absence o' tracks o 'mention of us south o' 'ere will hit' im as distinctly peculiar and they'll start 'untin' for us elsewhere. "
The Day of the Dissonance Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1984
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