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tin plate

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tin plate
thin steel sheet coated with a layer of tin that protects the steel from corrosion


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I wondered awhile, but soon I began to long for a tin plate, and some bacon and beans.
They had brought him his supper, which was "duffers and dope"--being hunks of dry bread on a tin plate, and coffee, called "dope" because it was drugged to keep the prisoners quiet.
She fried potato dollars and onions in the same pan, but separately, and set them on top of the coffee pot in the tin plate she was to eat from, covering it with Billy's inverted plate.
 
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