Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Sheet iron or steel plated with an alloy of three or four parts of lead to one part of tin, used as a roofing material.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An inferior kind of tin-plate, in making which the tin used is alloyed with a large percentage of lead.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Thin iron sheets coated with an alloy of lead and tin; -- so called because made up of
three metals.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Thin
iron sheeting coated with analloy oflead andtin .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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NOTE: Figures include tinplate and terneplate; excludes rails and ships, boats and other vessels for scrapping.
U.S. Iron and Steel Scrap Exports by Country for August - Bloomberg 2011
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NOTE: Figures include tinplate and terneplate; excludes rails and ships, boats and other vessels for scrapping.
U.S. Iron and Steel Scrap Exports by Country for August - Bloomberg 2011
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NOTE: Figures include tinplate and terneplate; excludes rails and ships, boats and other vessels for scrapping.
U.S. Iron and Steel Scrap Exports by Country for June - Bloomberg 2010
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NOTE: Figures include tinplate and terneplate; excludes rails and ships, boats and other vessels for scrapping.
U.S. Iron and Steel Scrap Exports by Country for July - Bloomberg 2010
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