Meanings
nounbiscuit tin (plural biscuit tins)
plural biscuit tins · alternative biscuit-tin
- UKA 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
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