Tinware
noun
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 Household items such as utensils, pots, and pans made from tin, generally before the development of metals with other benefits. countable, uncountable
- 2 articles of commerce made of tin plate wordnet
Example
More examples"There was a stove, a table, three chairs, a row of shelves containing a few articles of crockery and tinware, and a bed in the far corner of the room, on which rested a man with ragged gray beard and hair, a face long and thin, and coal-black eyes."
Etymology
From tin + -ware.
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