biscuit tin

English

Alternative forms

• biscuit-tin

Noun

biscuit tin (plural biscuit tins)

1. (UK) A medium-sized metal container with removable lid used to store biscuits and keep them fresh.
   • 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:

     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.