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tinning

[tin-ing] / ˈtɪn ɪŋ /


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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

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

Most of its processes, from skinning to tinning, are now controlled by buttons, and new byproducts have led Armour in promising directions.

From Time Magazine Archive

Meanwhile U. S. cattlemen will not feel the new British demand until U. S. packers can get tinning capacity.

From Time Magazine Archive

Shay put her hands in her pockets and spread her arms, tinning her dorm’s team jacket into a sail.

From "Uglies" by Scott Westerfeld


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