block tin

American  

noun

1. pure tin.

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block tin British  

noun

1. pure tin, esp when cast into ingots

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Example Sentences

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.

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They consume annually in their foundry about twelve hundred tons of iron, and employ one hundred hands; while the tin and copper factory uses and vends three thousand boxes of tin plate, and from $15,000 to $20,000 worth of sheet copper, wire, block tin, sheet zinc, lead, lead pipe, &c.

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A. Make it of lead or block tin.

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Block′-print′ing, printing of Block′-books, from engraved wooden blocks or pages; Block′-ship, a war-ship, inefficient for service in action on account of age, but useful in defence of ports; Block′-sys′tem, a system of working trains in which no train is allowed on to a section of line so long as any other train is on that section; Block′-tin, tin in the form of blocks or ingots.

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It is also used in coating copper and iron plates, and in silvering looking-glasses, besides being cast into a variety of forms, when it is called block tin.

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