Block-tin
pure tin.
Historical Examples
The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886 Ministry of Education
The Story of the Rock R.M. Ballantyne
The Cook and Housekeeper’s Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Mary Eaton
Lord Jim Joseph Conrad
Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 69, No. 425, March, 1851 Various
Twice Told Tales Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nick Baba’s Last Drink and Other Sketches George P. Goff
Limbo and Other Essays Vernon Lee
Elements of Plumbing Samuel Dibble
The Peace Egg and Other tales Juliana Horatia Ewing
noun
pure tin, esp when cast into ingots
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