block tin
Americannoun
noun
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A tin-plate worker may even cut his base-plate out of stout block tin, and get as good results as if the bell were made by an engineer.
From Electric Bells and All About Them A Practical Book for Practical Men by Bottone, S. R.
Old pieces of lead pipe, lead trap, old block tin pipe are used to make solder when pure metals are not at hand.
From Elements of Plumbing by Dibble, Samuel Edward
The best-sized pan for loaves is made of block tin; is eight and a half inches long, four and a half wide, and three deep.
From Miss Parloa's New Cook Book by Parloa, Maria
The tubing is a block tin pipe, encased with iron, eighty-five feet in length and two inches in diameter.
From Saratoga and How to See It by Dearborn, R. F.
Britannia, pewter, and block tin in table use are polished the same as silver.
From The Complete Home by Laughlin, Clara E. (Clara Elizabeth)
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