A shallow container used by a prospector for separating gold from soil or gravel.
my equipment consisted of a tent, spade, tin dish, and about a week's supply of provisions
Example sentencesExamples
He goes on the land with pick and shovel and tin dish to search, examine, and report.
The idea is to put this fine earth into one tin dish, and holding it high up in the air, pour it down into another.
The tools employed by persons looking for new gold fields are extremely simple, and consist of a crow-bar, pick-axe, shovel, and a large round flat-bottomed tin dish.
His chief merit lies in the fact that he showed the real discoverers of the first payable gold-field in Australia the way in which to prospect with a tin-dish.
The simplest method of extracting the gold is to wash the "dirt," as it is called, in a tin dish.