block tin
Americannoun
noun
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On condensing in a block tin worm, however, no tin is dissolved, so tin is safer and better as the material for such a purpose than lead.
From The Chemistry of Hat Manufacturing Lectures Delivered Before the Hat Manufacturers' Association by Albert Shonk
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 Maria Parloa
Buns and some other cakes should be baked in square shallow pans of block tin or iron.
From Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches by Eliza Leslie
Black sauce pans, lined with tin or with porcelain; tin sauce pans, thin ones, and thick ones made of block tin.
From A Course of Lectures on the Principles of Domestic Economy and Cookery by Juliet Corson
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 Samuel Edward Dibble
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