tin plate
noun
thin iron or steel sheet coated with tin.
tinplate
-
a variation of
tin plate.
Example Sentences
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Wool and imported tinplate, which was used for ceilings and cheap cookware, were particularly targeted.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2024
Executives from the can makers counter that domestic steelmakers can’t produce nearly enough tinplate to meet their needs - forcing them to keep importing and paying tariffs.
From Reuters ● Jun. 14, 2019
Steel contended in its objections that U.S. tinplate mills were operating at only 43 percent of capacity because cheap imports had eroded domestic producers’ market share.
From Reuters ● Jun. 14, 2019
Herman became the lawyer for the local tinplate workers’ union, and in the summer of 1909, alongside his brawny seventeen-year-old son, got into a bruising clash with strikebreakers.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 10, 2018
Above them, suspended from a wire, a tinplate clockwork aquaplane with wooden pontoons and a rotating propeller makes an electric, hypnotizing orbit.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
