tinningn.
/ˈtɪnɪŋ/ I. The action of tin v.
1.
a. Coating, lining, or plating with tin; working at tin-ware.
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society > occupation and work > industry > working with specific materials > working with metal > [noun] > coating with metal > with specific metals
leadingc1440
tinningc1440
foilinga1582
quickening1738
electroplating1840
zincing1841
retinning1843
palladiumizinga1851
acierage1852
platinizing1853
nickelization1857
quicking1863
brassingc1865
copperingc1865
nickel plating1870
nickelling1875
steel-facing1884
brazing1886
aluminizing1890
sherardizing1901
calorizing1930
aluminization1932
stelliting1934
anodizing1936
anodization1952
flame-plating1954
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 494/2 Tynnynge wythe tynne, stannacio.
1487–8 in H. Littlehales Medieval Rec. London City Church (1905) 130 Paide to Westwode, smyth,..for tynnyng of the same boltes.
1537 in J. B. Paul Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1905) VI. 337 Item, for grathing and dichting and tynnyng of ten tua handit suerdis.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Plombement, a leading, or tinning.
1789 Trans. Soc. Arts (ed. 2) 1 13 Tinning with pure Tin.
1800 tr. E. J. B. Bouillon-Lagrange Man. Course Chem. II. 107 The tinning of copper consists in applying a coating of tin to the surface of that metal.
1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 280/1 As you see, sir, I work at tinning. I put new bottoms into old tin tea-pots, and such like.
1873 E. Spon Workshop Receipts 1st Ser. 9/1 When the article is prepared for tinning, it may be immersed in the tinning metal.
b. concrete. A tin coating or lining.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > plated or coated metal > [noun] > plating or coating applied to metal > types of
goldOE
wash1695
tinning1762
rolled gold1822
zopissa1862
nickel plate1873
coke finish1898
1762 Ann. Reg. 1761 i. 143/1 This accident was..occasioned by using a copper sauce pan, from which the tinning was worn off.
1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 31 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.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preserving or pickling > [noun] > preserving by canning
canning1859
tinning1903
1903 Daily Chron. 13 Jan. 6/1 The tinning of sprats from Honfleur and other points.
II. The action or process of mining for tin.
3. Tin-mining.
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society > occupation and work > industry > mining > [noun] > for tin
tinnery1769
tinning1855
1855 J. R. Leifchild Cornwall: Mines & Miners 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.
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C4. attributive.
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1860 C. Tomlinson Useful Arts & Manuf. 2nd Ser. Pins 47 Then comes the whitening, or tinning process.
1868 F. H. Joynson Metals in Constr. 104 The plates are now received one by one from the tinning bath.
1898 Daily News 11 Aug. 7/2 Tinning factories have more than they want.
1909 Eng. Rev. Mar. 621 [They] put them into patent tinning-pots.
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