tinware
IPA: tˈɪnwɛr
noun
- Household items such as utensils, pots, and pans made from tin, generally before the development of metals with other benefits.
Advertisement
Examples of "tinware" in Sentences
- Began the stamping of tinware in 1862.
- Louis Cary was in the store and tinware business.
- McKinley was in favor of an import tariff on tinware.
- Examples of tinware can be found throughout the village.
- The family made a living selling baskets, tinware and clothespegs.
- By extension it can also refer to the person who deals in tinware.
- By the late 19th century, tinware was in nearly every home and farm.
- Bradford also manufactured farm implements, wooden ware and tinware.
- The tinsmith makes a great variety of tinware for household and farm use.
- Tinware and enamel ware were produced in town in the late nineteenth century.
- The heavy vibrations went through the small kitchen, making plates and tinware rattle loudly.
- Here, the late Yong Nam Hin (1932-2003), grandson of the founder, puts in a day's work at the tinware maker in this 2001 photograph.
- Oh, I'll sham it with the best in public, and sport my tinware, but I know what I am, and there's no room for honest pride in me, you see.
- Well, bless the dear little snail-eaters, thinks I, for while I've collected a fair bit of undeserved tinware in my time, you can't have too much of it, you know.
- 'tinware' -- I hope later to convince of the indelicacy of such allusion -- would place you in England on a social level above any we ever occupied, or could hope to.
- Although called tinware, it really was zinc, and was susceptible, through much hard work, of a high polish, but this "polishing tinware" was a fearful curse to the poor prisoner.
- I duly admired it before we went to dinner in an ante-room; it was a small party at table, Flashy in full Lancer fig with V.C. and assorted tinware, two young aides pop-eyed with worship, and Grey himself.
- For others, well, the catalog is a gateway to the material culture of the colonial past in North America, featuring everything from tinware lanterns and redware porringers to clothing and patterns, even 18th-century scissors for do-it-yourselfers.
- Now a bag of remarkable clothes - pins, next, a wonderful nutmeg grater which fell to pieces at the first trial, a knife cleaner that spoiled all the knives, or a sweeper that picked the nap neatly off the carpet and left the dirt, labor-saving soap that took the skin off one's hands, infallible cements which stuck firmly to nothing but the fingers of the de - luded buyer, and every kind of tinware, from a toy savings bank for odd pennies, to a wonderful boiler which would wash articles in its own steam with every prospect of exploding in the process.