tinplate
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]tinplate (countable and uncountable, plural tinplates)
- Alternative spelling of tin plate
- 1961 August, “New traffic flows in South Wales”, in Trains Illustrated, page 493:
- [...] 4,000 tons of slabs will be sent to the R.T.B. works at Ebbw Vale and a further 8,000 a week will be rolled at the new R.T.B. Newport Works and returned to the Steel Co. of Wales at Trostre and Llangyfelach in coil form for processing into tinplate.
Verb
[edit]tinplate (third-person singular simple present tinplates, present participle tinplating, simple past and past participle tinplated)
- Alternative spelling of tin-plate
References
[edit]- “tinplate”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.