tinning

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After the war in 1922, he bought the business of J. Lesher & Son and dealt in plumbing, heating, roof tinning, spouting and stoves.

From Washington Times • Nov. 17, 2018

Through its encouragement of the tinning industry, it helped make tinned meat a part of the British diet; through its public lectures, it introduced the nation to such modern wonders as the Edison phonograph.

From Time Magazine Archive

He estimated his process would be a third cheaper than tinning.

From Time Magazine Archive

All during summer and autumn Drought dropped into the can-makers' laps orders for hundreds of millions of cans for the meat which the Government was tinning for the unemployed.

From Time Magazine Archive

He was tinning his whole attention to physical activity so that he might not notice the nagging uneasiness beginning to force its way into the conscious part of his mind.

From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw