Definition of "tin plate" []

• Thin sheet iron or steel coated with tin to prevent rusting, used especially to make cans and pots. (noun)

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• "Deutschland on the stern of the ship, painting in letters of gold on a tin plate in German script."
• "A woman in a bright skirt of cloth scraps pieced together like a quilt spobned him up food onto his tin plate and went about frying corn fritters in a pan of lard."
• "But a body that's tuk his meals on a tin plate in a row o 'fellers waitin' fer the'r turn four years hand-runnin ', ain't expected to - ""