mess tin

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mess tin

noun mess tins

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

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noun portable container

Italiano	gavetta, schiscetta

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@misc{mess_tin_2026,
  title = {mess tin},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/mess%20tin},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}