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He could play 'em a tune on any sort of pot you please, so as it was iron or block tin.
Mine is made of japanned block tin, and contains in close-fitting compartments an entire dinner and breakfast service for three persons, including everything that can be required in an ordinary establishment.
They were also in the manufacture of tinned lead pipe, block tin pipe, bar tin, solders, Babbit metal and all kinds of lead traps and lead bends.
Bezoardicum joviale, or bezoar of Jupiter, is a regulus made by melting three ounces of regulus of antimony and two of block tin.
The typical lures were heavy lead or block tin jigs, although by the time the era was drawing to a close, a few big plugs designed for the freshwater species such as muskelunge were being used in saltwater.
If you do, you'll be getting all the tinkers from Wicklow and Wexford, and the County Meath, to put up block tin in the place of glass to shield your windows where you do be looking out and blinking at the girls.
This had particular appeal for me because it depicts, although the scene is more crowded than any I encountered, the way in which I began catching bluefish in Massachusetts about 50 years ago: whirling a heavy block tin squid, or jig, attached to heavy marline, about my head and slinging it to sea.