A small, usually round container used to hold the host (“consecrated bread or wafer of the Eucharist”), especially when bringing communion to the sick or others unable to attend Mass.
A box used in a mint as a place to deposit sample coins intended to have the fineness of their metal and their weight tested before the coins are issued to the public.
A (small) box; a casket, a coffret.
To enclose (something) in a box or other container; specifically, to place (a deceased person's body) in a coffin; to coffin, to encoffin.
To deposit (sample coins) in a pyx; (by extension) to test (such coins) for the fineness of metal and weight before a mint issues them to the public.
An airtight container, made of tin or another metal, used to preserve food, or hold a liquid or some other product.
A metal pan used for baking, roasting, etc.
A malleable, ductile, metallic element, resistant to corrosion, with atomic number 50 and symbol Sn.
computer hardware.
The bottom part of the front wall, which is "out" if a player strikes it with the ball.
To coat with solder, in order to consolidate braided wire, so as to make contact with all strands and reduce fragility of the fraying wire
To cover with tin.
To place into a metal can (ie. a tin; be it tin, steel, aluminum) in order to preserve.
To coat with solder, in preparation for soldering, to ensure a good solder joint
Made of galvanised iron or built of corrugated iron.
Made of tin.