block tin

noun

pure tin.

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It was a flask of liquor, with a block-tin tumbler screwed upon the mouth.
The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886|Ministry of Education
In small families however, block-tin saucepans and boilers are much to be preferred, as lightest and safest.
The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches,|Mary Eaton
Nature can scarcely afford beauty wherewith to compensate for living in block-tin shanties or brand new palaces.
Limbo and Other Essays|Vernon Lee
It was found that the block-tin with which the door-hooks were to be fastened had been forgotten!
The Story of the Rock|R.M. Ballantyne

When making a cup joint on block-tin pipe the soldering iron must not touch the pipe and fine solder should be used.
Elements of Plumbing|Samuel Dibble

British Dictionary definitions for block tin

block tin

noun

pure tin, esp when cast into ingots

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