Tin Plate Workers

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• Tin

  ·noun <<Money>>. II. Tin ·noun Thin plates of iron covered with tin; tin plate. III. Tin ·vt To co...

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• Tin

  Heb. bedil (Num. 31:22; Ezek. 22:18, 20), a metal well known in ancient times. It is the general opi...

  Easton's Bible Dictionary

• tin

  A slang word for money. 'Kelter,' 'dimes,' 'dough,' rocks,' and many other words are used in the sam...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• Tin

  Among the various metals found in the spoils of the Midianites, tin is enumerated. (Numbers 31:22) I...

  William Smith's Bible Dictionary

• Plate

  ·noun A piece of money, usually silver money. II. Plate ·noun A roundel of silver or tinctured arge...

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• plate

  Money, silver, prize. He is in for the plate; he has won the KEAT, i.e. is infected with the venerea...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• plate

  In marine law, refers to jewels, plate, or treasure, for which freight is due. Thus, plate-ship is a...

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• Block tin

  ·- ·see under <<Tin>>. ...

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• tin-potter

  A galley skulker, shamming Abraham. ...

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• Cuttoo plate

  ·- A hood over the end of a wagon wheel hub to keep dirt away from the axle. ...

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• Plate-gilled

  ·adj Having flat, or leaflike, gills, as the bivalve mollusks. ...

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• Process plate

  ·add. ·- A plate prepared by a mechanical process, ·esp. a photomechanical process. II. Process pla...

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• Veiled plate

  ·add. ·- A fogged plate. ...

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• Water plate

  ·- A plate heated by hot water contained in a double bottom or jacket. ...

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• Wet plate

  ·add. ·- A plate the film of which retains its sensitiveness only while wet. The film used in such p...

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• dial plate

  The face. To alter his dial plate; to disfigure his face. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• king's plate

  Fetters. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• gammon-plate

  An iron plate bolted to the stem of some vessels for the purpose of supporting the gammoning of the ...

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• plate-armour

  Thick coverings or coatings for ships on the new principle, to render them impervious to shot and sh...

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• Cloth Workers' Court

  North out of White Friers, in Farringdon Ward Without (O. and M. 1677). See Paved Alley and Ashentr...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• breaking-plate distance

  The point within which iron-plated ships, under concentrated fire, may be damaged. ...

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