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tinning, vbl. n.|ˈtɪnɪŋ|
[f. tin v. or n. + -ing1.]
I. The action of the verb tin.
1. Coating, lining, or plating with tin; working at tin-ware.
c1440Promp. Parv. 494/2 Tynnynge wythe tynne, stannacio. 1487–8Rec. St. Mary at Hill 130 Paide to Westwode, smyth,..for tynnyng of the same boltes. 1537Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot. VI. 337 Item, for grathing and dichting and tynnyng of ten tua handit suerdis. 1611Cotgr., Plombement, a leading, or tinning. 1789Trans. Soc. Arts I. 13 Tinning with pure Tin. 1800tr. Lagrange's Chem. II. 107 The tinning of copper consists in applying a coating of tin to the surface of that metal. 1851Mayhew Lond. Labour (1864) I. 302/1 As you see, sir, I work at tinning. I put new bottoms into old tin tea-pots, and such like. 1873E. Spon Workshop Receipts Ser. i. 9/1 When the article is prepared for tinning, it may be immersed in the tinning metal.
b. concr. A tin coating or lining.
1761Chron. in Ann. Reg. 143/1 This accident was..occasioned by using a copper sauce pan, from which the tinning was worn off. 1839Ure Dict. Arts s.v. Alloy, Tinning, gilding, and silvering may also be reckoned a species of alloys.
2. The putting up and sealing of meat, fish, fruit, etc., in tins for preservation; canning.
1903Daily Chron. 13 Jan. 6/1 The tinning of sprats from Honfleur and other points.
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3. Tin-mining.
1855J. R. Leifchild Cornwall Mines 197 For a long period in the early history of tin-mining, the mines of Cornwall appear to have been in the hands of the Jews... When the Jews were hotly persecuted, those engaged in ‘tinning’ were particularly exempted.
III. 4. attrib.
1860Tomlinson Arts & Manuf. Ser. ii. Pins 47 Then comes the whitening, or tinning process. 1868Joynson Metals 104 The plates are now received one by one from the tinning bath. 1898Daily News 11 Aug. 7/2 Tinning factories have more than they want. 1909Eng. Rev. Mar. 621 [They] put them into patent tinning-pots. |