tinplate

tin plate

noun
thin iron or steel sheet coated with tin.
Also, tin·plate.
Also called tin.


Origin:
1670–80

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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
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tin-plate

[tin-pleyt]
verb (used with object), tin-plat·ed, tin-plat·ing.
to coat (iron or steel sheet) with tin.

Origin:
1885–90

tin-plat·er, noun
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tinplate

noun
a thin sheet of metal (iron or steel) coated with tin to prevent rusting; used especially for cans, pots, and tins [syn: tin plate
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