A thin sheet of metal (iron or steel) coated with tin to prevent rusting; used especially for cans, pots, and tins.
1And the tin plate I left here has gone with the meat.
2At the cookfire, Feren was scraping food on to a tin plate.
3Butter a tin plate and lay the drained roe upon it.
4Bettles rapped the dog sharply with a tin plate, and it withdrew hastily.
5With tin plate the soldering of long joints is often necessary.
6She presented him with a gorgeous cinnamon apple muffin on a tin plate.
7From somewhere a tin plate materialized, and was in Drew's hold.
8He slipped it off the spit and onto his tin plate.
9They ate breakfast, each with a gun beside his tin plate.
10Tiffany banged her tin plate on the bars until they subsided into silence.
11And she hurled the contents of her tin plate into Lake Susan W. Pillsbury.
12He stood, tin plate in hand, and slung the bones out into the night.
13Powdered resin makes a good flux for lead, tin plate, galvanized iron and aluminum.
14A slice of bread lay untouched on a tin plate.
15Johnny's biscuits, on a tin plate, were hard and dry.
16I'd rather wear a gray shirt, an' eat off a tin plate, any day!
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