biscuit tin
English
Noun
biscuit tin (plural biscuit tins)
- A medium-sized metal container with removable lid used to store biscuits and keep them fresh.
- 1899 Feb, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, 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.