tin-panning

Definitions

Examples

• The line right before this is “With little tin horns and little toy drums.”

• While panning for gold, he made himself a large hat from the hides he had collected on his trip.

• The raw materials— tin, tantalum, tungsten and gold—were dubbed “conflict minerals.”

• One and all, they come shaking their tin cups at election time then run like the wind when a critical vote comes up.

• The more than 50,000 who reside in West Point live mostly in shacks made of zinc with rusted tin roofs.

• And I will turn my hand to thee, and I will clean purge away thy dross, and I will take away all thy tin.

• Otherwise, a child's box of tin soldiers sent by post would have been just the thing for the Dardanelles landing!

• He watched the man put some bread and milk in a tin pan, and set it down on the floor of the basket.

• All the bamboo clappers, cocoanut shells, tin pans, and red flags that could be found were seized and put into use.

• Another manner of punishment consists in making them wear a tin mask, which is fastened with a lock behind.