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

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

Would you like Spam with that? WOMAN'S AMAZING RECIPES WIN NATIONAL RECOGNITION

His dad said: "His head was split open like a tin-opener had sliced it.

I NEARLY LOST MY LIFE ON BIG FLIPPER; Exclusive Taylor, 10, survives 25ft horror fall at fairground

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

Looks as if it's some kind of tin-opener, but you could probably use it to scrape your feet.

MEN and things that go bump in the kitchen; Simon Shroot, 32, advertising manager; Paul Dalton, 24, marketing manager; David Fellowes, 49, lecturer

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.