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

Put all these ingredients into a silver or block tin sauce-pan, or into an earthen pipkin, and add a few grains of cochineal to colour it.

From Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches by Leslie, Eliza

In small families we recommend block tin saucepans, &c. as lightest and safest.

From The Cook's Oracle; and Housekeeper's Manual by Kitchiner, William

To make sheet lead, the manufacturer mixes 1½ to 3 seers of block tin with a pucka maund of lead, and melts them together in a cast metal pan.

From The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. by Simmonds, P. L.

Mine is made of japanned block tin, and contains in close-fitting compartments an entire dinner and breakfast service for three persons, including everything that can be required in an ordinary establishment.

From The Rifle and the Hound in Ceylon by Baker, Samuel White, Sir

It consists of four pieces, the whole being made of block tin.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 595, May 28, 1887 by Various