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mess tin

mess tin noun: a portable container for cooking or serving food, originally for military use, and generally of a rounded rectangular form.

Noun

mess tin (plural mess tins)

  1. A portable container for cooking or serving food, originally for military use, and generally of a rounded rectangular form.
    • […] it was his army mess tin, he had carried it with him in all his travels, he certainly was attached to it. Alberto didn't stop roaming about the Camp until he identified the thief, who was much stronger than we were and brazenly carried around the beautiful and rare Italian mess tin. My friend...2017, Primo Levi, Moments of Reprieve: Essays, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 126

Forms of mess tin

pluralmess tins

Questions about mess tin

What does mess tin mean?
Mess tin means a portable container for cooking or serving food, originally for military use, and generally of a rounded rectangular form.
What part of speech is mess tin?
Mess tin is a noun.
What is the plural of mess tin?
The plural of mess tin is mess tins.

Words near mess tin in the dictionary

  1. mess rooms
  2. mess set
  3. mess sets
  4. mess tent
  5. mess tents
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  8. mess trap
  9. mess traps
  10. mess uniform
  11. mess uniforms

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