Untin
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 To remove the tin (metal) from. transitive
"As regards the treatment of slimes, I think nothing so effective as the frame for untinning the stuff which is reduced to a pulp; hence the difficulty in dealing with it, and the great loss sustained by miners, whose lost tin is reproduced by the tin streamers or squatters who line the sides of the Red and other rivers."
Example
More examples"As regards the treatment of slimes, I think nothing so effective as the frame for untinning the stuff which is reduced to a pulp; hence the difficulty in dealing with it, and the great loss sustained by miners, whose lost tin is reproduced by the tin streamers or squatters who line the sides of the Red and other rivers."
Etymology
From un- + tin.
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