Adjective : a set of tin values. From Dictionary.com.
The tinning or "silvering" process is next in order. From Wordnik.com. [The Great Round World And What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 24, April 22, 1897 A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls] Reference
This method of tinning the ferrule will spoil the wiping solder. From Wordnik.com. [Elements of Plumbing] Reference
'I'm Columbus,' said the Honourable Paddy, tinning the ramrod spit. From Wordnik.com. [VC — A Chronicle of Castle Barfield and of the Crimea] Reference
Constant wiping on the brass ferrule will result in the tinning on the brass ferrule coming off. From Wordnik.com. [Elements of Plumbing] Reference
The tinning of the dome being unfinished, the water, of course, came down in showers all over the centre. From Wordnik.com. [Outlines of a Mechanical Theory of Storms Containing the True Law of Lunar Influence] Reference
This operation is the same, only on a smaller scale, as the tinning of the 2-inch and the 4-inch brass ferrule. From Wordnik.com. [Elements of Plumbing] Reference
For tinning, solder with a tin content of 60% and a non-acid flux (soldering paste or rosin in spirits) will be employed. From Wordnik.com. [5. Fundamentals of installation engineering] Reference
As they may hinder later tinning the wedges and pressing the lid into its clay bedding, a steel ring which folds down is preferable. From Wordnik.com. [6. Construction of the biogas plant] Reference
After tinning, the surfaces are laid together and heated so as to "sweat" them together; the phrase, though inelegant, is expressive. From Wordnik.com. [On Laboratory Arts] Reference
It will be found advisable to tin every side of the point of the bit and to carry the tinning back at least half an inch from the edge. From Wordnik.com. [On Laboratory Arts] Reference
Every fish was then needed for the tinning business. From Wordnik.com. [What I Remember]
Another example was the formation of a tinning company under the patronage of. From Wordnik.com. [The Age of the Reformation] Reference
The art of tinning iron feems to be of a much later date than that of copper. From Wordnik.com. [An Attempt to Promote the Commercial Interests of Great Britain] Reference
Please to pay Mr. McSparran for the five days and half that he worked at tinning for me. From Wordnik.com. [Letters to and from Jefferson, 1821-1822] Reference
The floor-men are laying the floor, the tinners are tinning the roof, the masons are calling for mortar. From Wordnik.com. [Leaves of Grass] Reference
Useful chemicals were now first applied to various manufacturing processes, such as the tinning of iron. From Wordnik.com. [The Age of the Reformation] Reference
The floor-men are laying the floorthe tinners are tinning the roofthe masons are calling for mortar. From Wordnik.com. [Walt Whitman] Reference
Copper is dangerous; but the recipe is given, further on, for tinning copper vessels when they require it. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Travel Shifts and Contrivances Available in Wild Countries] Reference
They grasped the working of straw, gold, silver, the lye-washing of linen, the tinning of saucepans; then, without the least scruple. From Wordnik.com. [Bouvard and Pécuchet A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life] Reference
It is less dangerous than 'tinning' Ralph Hamon. From Wordnik.com. [The Black] Reference
Copper, art of tinning. From Wordnik.com. [Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine] Reference
Kalai (for tinning copper vessels). From Wordnik.com. [Across Coveted Lands or a Journey from Flushing (Holland) to Calcutta Overland] Reference
Usually stranded, but it requires tinning. From Wordnik.com. [Shoryuken] Reference
Waitts bill for work connected with tinning. From Wordnik.com. [Report of the Bursar (Elisha Mitchell), May 27, 1840] Reference
tinning of the conductors. From Wordnik.com. [5. Fundamentals of installation engineering] Reference
tinning the roof -- the masons are calling for. From Wordnik.com. [Leaves of Grass [1867]] Reference
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