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noun
Thin iron or steel sheeting coated with an alloy of lead and tin (or, more recently, zinc and tin), often with some antimony.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: also, attributive, countable, uncountable
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Antonyms: none provided
History
Probably from terne (“colourless, drab, dull”) (as contrasted with the shiny appearance of tinplate) + plate (“layer of a material on the surface of something, plating”).
