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messtin

messtin is the alternative form of mess tin.

Meaning of mess tin

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 messtin

pluralmesstins

Questions about messtin

What is messtin the alternative form of?
Messtin is the alternative form of mess tin.

Words near messtin in the dictionary

  1. Messrs.
  2. Messrs. and Mmes.
  3. Messrs. Claus
  4. Messrs. Right
  5. Messrs. Wrong
  6. messtin
  7. messtins
  8. messuage
  9. messuages
  10. messup
  11. messups

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