Definition of "tinning" []

• Present participle of tin. (verb)
• A covering or lining of tin. (noun)

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• "Erin Kunkel for the Wall Street Journal A worker spreads out salted caviar on a steel drying rack, the last step before tinning."
• "Behind plastic curtain-strip doors, workers in hairnets, smocks and surgical masks move with assembly-line efficiency in the 40-degree Fahrenheit room warm temperature affects the caviar's taste separating eggs from ovary, then washing, salting and tinning the caviar."
• "Gun making has its own vocabulary to describe the arcane processes that create a gun: "striking up" and "tinning" are just two of the terms used to describe aspects of making the barrels and fitting them together."