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Tin Tuber?

#1 User is offline   Khanna 

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Posted 31 October 2020 - 07:53 AM

In Book 3, Chapter 4, Gruntle, Stonny and Harllo are talking among themselves. At some point Stonny gets angry at Harllo and says: "Those are the last things you'll see when I push my knife through that tin tuber in your chest. Oh, and I'll blow a kiss too." What the heck is a "tin tuber?" Does she mean his armor?
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Posted 31 October 2020 - 12:34 PM

I thought a tuber was a sort of plant. Like a potato?
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Posted 31 October 2020 - 01:31 PM

I think it refers to the armour. That's just from the context of the sentence.

I would guess because a tuber is an outer wrapping/though outer layer, so the equivalent for humans would be armour.
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Posted 31 October 2020 - 01:35 PM

I thought it meant his heart as it says "in your chest" not "on your chest" and maybe tuber meaning tubes, tin heart, metal heart.

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'Yet my heart breaks for a naked hen.'
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