Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

mess tin

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.92 in modern English

Syllables: mess tin
IPA

9

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

1

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A portable container for cooking or serving food, originally for military use, and generally of a rounded rectangular form.

Example Sentences

"[…] 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 hit on a plan: to offer Elias three bread rations, in installments, provided he would agree to recover the mess tin, by fair means or foul, from the hands of the thief, who was a Pole like himself."

Inflected Forms

mess tins (plural)

Phrases

mess kit

Frequently Paired Words

mess kit

Questions

What does mess tin mean?: A portable container for cooking or serving food, originally for military use, and generally of a rounded rectangular form.

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