block-tin

On tin-lined pipe and block-tin pipe the cup joint is commonly used.

Elements of Plumbing Samuel Edward Dibble

It was a flask of liquor, with a block-tin tumbler screwed upon the mouth.

The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886 Ontario. Ministry of Education

They are made of block-tin and pewter, and, if not quite new, may be detected on sight.

Nick Baba's Last Drink and Other Sketches George Paul Goff

When making a cup joint on block-tin pipe the soldering iron must not touch the pipe and fine solder should be used.

Elements of Plumbing Samuel Edward Dibble

This machine is connected directly with the sphere by a block-tin pipe.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 514, November 7, 1885 Various

He discovered how hard the lid of a block-tin case was to sit upon.

Lord Jim 1900

He discovered how hard the lid of a block-tin case was to sit upon.

Lord Jim 1899

The Doctor took his seat alone at a cross table forming the top of one of the two rows of tables, set with white cups and saucers, and plates well heaped with the square pieces of bread and butter, while Mrs. Grimstone with Dulcie and Tom, sat at the foot of the same row, behind two ugly urns of dull block-tin.

Vice Versa or A Lesson to Fathers F. Anstey 1895

He discovered how hard the lid of a block-tin case was to sit upon.

Lord Jim Joseph Conrad 1890

"You'll take some tea?" insinuated Mrs. Tempest, her attention absorbed by the silver kettle, which was just now conducting itself as spitfireishly as any blackened block-tin on a kitchen hob.

Vixen, Volume I. 1875