noun

• 1A kettle of tinned iron.

  Generally regarded as of inferior quality, or typical of a poor household.

• 2A metal kettle, pan, etc., that is beaten to make a cacophonous noise, either in celebration or to show opprobrium, especially on the part of a large group of people. Compare "tin pan". Now chiefly historical.

  With use in the context of serenading newly-weds, compare tin-kettle, tin-kettler, and "tin-kettling".

• 3rare Extended and allusive uses. A piano of poor quality.