Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Wares of tin; articles, especially vessels for holding liquids, made of tin-plate.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Articles made of tinned iron.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Household items such as
utensils ,pots , andpans made fromtin , generally before the development of metals with other benefits.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun articles of commerce made of tin plate
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Examples
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Although called tinware, it really was zinc, and was susceptible, through much hard work, of a high polish, but this "polishing tinware" was a fearful curse to the poor prisoner.
Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison Fifteen Years in Solitude Austin Bidwell
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'tinware' -- I hope later to convince of the indelicacy of such allusion -- would place you in England on a social level above any we ever occupied, or could hope to.
Laddie; a true blue story Gene Stratton-Porter 1893
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Now a bag of remarkable clothes - pins, next, a wonderful nutmeg grater which fell to pieces at the first trial, a knife cleaner that spoiled all the knives, or a sweeper that picked the nap neatly off the carpet and left the dirt, labor-saving soap that took the skin off one's hands, infallible cements which stuck firmly to nothing but the fingers of the de - luded buyer, and every kind of tinware, from a toy savings bank for odd pennies, to a wonderful boiler which would wash articles in its own steam with every prospect of exploding in the process.
Little Women 1921
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Oh, I'll sham it with the best in public, and sport my tinware, but I know what I am, and there's no room for honest pride in me, you see.
The Sky Writer Geoff Barbanell 2010
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I duly admired it before we went to dinner in an ante-room; it was a small party at table, Flashy in full Lancer fig with V.C. and assorted tinware, two young aides pop-eyed with worship, and Grey himself.
THE NUMBERS 2010
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Well, bless the dear little snail-eaters, thinks I, for while I've collected a fair bit of undeserved tinware in my time, you can't have too much of it, you know.
Watershed 2010
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For others, well, the catalog is a gateway to the material culture of the colonial past in North America, featuring everything from tinware lanterns and redware porringers to clothing and patterns, even 18th-century scissors for do-it-yourselfers.
Applause for Re-Enactors Mark Rose 2009
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Here, the late Yong Nam Hin (1932-2003), grandson of the founder, puts in a day's work at the tinware maker in this 2001 photograph.
Scenes From Malacca 2008
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The heavy vibrations went through the small kitchen, making plates and tinware rattle loudly.
Archive 2006-02-01 2006
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The heavy vibrations went through the small kitchen, making plates and tinware rattle loudly.
hernesheir commented on the word tinware
(n): formerly, cooking utensils made from tin. Tinware has good conductivity but it is readily scuffed or scratched and rusts easily. It turns dark after use and is discolored by acidic foods.
January 5, 2009