ppl. a. [f. TIN sb. or v. + -ED.]
1. Coated or plated with tin.
c. 1384. Chaucer, H. Fame, III. 392. A pilere That was of tynned yren clere.
14[?]. MS. Sloane, 2463 lf. 159 b. Boile hit eftesones in a tynned panne.
1533. MS. Rawl. D., 776. A payer of Jemews for the same Dore … ffor Tynned naylles ffor the same Jemewes.
1691. Patent Specif. (1856), No. 282. 1. Iron plates tinned over comonly called tinned plates.
1831. M. Russell, Egypt, x. (1853), 420. A small chafing dish of tinned copper.
1839. Civil Eng. & Arch. Jrnl., II. 361/2. Manufacturer of zinc and of tinned iron.
2. Preserved in air-tight tins; canned.
1879. Echo, 18 Oct., 1/5. The trade in tinned food is enormous, and is constantly on the increase.
1883. Fisheries Exhib. Catal., 371. Cooked and tinned Salmon.
1887. Suffling, Land of Broads (ed. 2), ii. 19. Try a tinned pineapple, and you will, probably, like it as well as the article au naturel.
3. Baked in a tin.
1890. Stroud, Judicial Dict., 310. Tinned Loaves, made crusty all round … is not ‘French or Fancy Bread.’
