tinplate

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See also: tin-plate and tin plate

English

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Etymology

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From tin +‎ plate.

Noun

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tinplate (countable and uncountable, plural tinplates)

  1. Alternative spelling of tin plate
    • 1961 August, “New traffic flows in South Wales”, in Trains Illustrated, page 493:
      [...] 4,000 tons of slabs will be sent to the R.T.B. works at Ebbw Vale and a further 8,000 a week will be rolled at the new R.T.B. Newport Works and returned to the Steel Co. of Wales at Trostre and Llangyfelach in coil form for processing into tinplate.

Verb

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tinplate (third-person singular simple present tinplates, present participle tinplating, simple past and past participle tinplated)

  1. Alternative spelling of tin-plate

References

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