Tin

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Tin

A Burmese unit of volume approximately equivalent to 40.9 liters.

TIN

See taxpayer identification number.

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The most difficult single task is using a tin-opener.

RUNNING ON COURAGE; Mountain survivor Jamie will be first quadruple amputee to take part in the London marathon

follows that an object must live up to a certain standard if it is to be called a tin-opener

On functional definitions of art: a response to Rowe

Their best plan is to bury the bottled-water advice in among 22 pages of harmless guff about remembering where you put the tin-opener.

Maybe the plan is to keep us rattled until the next election

While having a go on this system myself, I managed to lay one of the rags in the opener to win a tin-opener, a scratched S-Club Juniors CD and a Scrabble set missing a few vowels - all I had to risk in return was a password to an online tipster's site.

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Finally, having deployed no discernible survival skills that didn't involve operating a tin-opener or asking someone else for help, he was helicoptered out again.

Charlie Catchpole's TV column: Grant's grizzly bore.

Sharon reaches for the tin-opener on most days to whip up anything from Spam a L'Orange to Spam Tikka Masala.