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biscuit tin

biscuit tin noun: a medium-sized metal container with removable lid used to store biscuits and keep them fresh.

Noun

biscuit tin (plural biscuit tins)

  1. (UK) A medium-sized metal container with removable lid used to store biscuits and keep them fresh.
    • She rang under my feet like an empty Huntley and Palmer biscuit-tin kicked along a gutter; she was nothing so solid in make, and rather less pretty in shape, but I had expended enough hard work on her to make me love her.1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 218

Forms of biscuit tin

pluralbiscuit tins
alternative formbiscuit-tin

Questions about biscuit tin

What does biscuit tin mean?
Biscuit tin means a medium-sized metal container with removable lid used to store biscuits and keep them fresh.
What part of speech is biscuit tin?
Biscuit tin is a noun.
What is the plural of biscuit tin?
The plural of biscuit tin is biscuit tins.

Words near biscuit tin in the dictionary

  1. biscuit root
  2. biscuit roots
  3. biscuit shooter
  4. biscuit shooters
  5. biscuit star
  6. biscuit tin
  7. biscuit tins
  8. biscuit ware
  9. biscuit weight
  10. biscuit-cutter
  11. biscuit-cutters

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