Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In mining, the purest and finest white tin, smelted with charcoal, which never had any brood or foreign admixture in the mine.
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Examples
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'Streaming' for tin was very much practised in the Middle Ages, and the sides of valleys all over Dartmoor are scored with the works of the tin-streamers, who turned about the streams and examined the beds for 'grain-tin.'
Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts Rosalind Northcote
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In this process, nothing ought to be used but pure grain-tin.
The Book of Household Management Isabella Mary 1861
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In this process, nothing ought to be used but pure grain-tin.
The Book of Household Management Isabella Mary 1861
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M. Sonnerat reports that this tin (named calin by the French writers), was analysed by M. Daubenton, who found it to be the same metal as that produced in England; but it sells something higher than our grain-tin.
The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants William Marsden 1795
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