pot metal
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]pot metal (countable and uncountable, plural pot metals)
- The metal from which iron pots are made, different from common pig iron.
- An alloy of copper with lead used for making large vessels for various purposes in the arts.
- 1819, William Nicholson, American Edition of the British Encyclopedia:
- Copper, with about a fourth of its weight of lead, forms pot-metal, used by the ancients for their coins.
- A kind of stained glass, the colours of which are incorporated with the melted glass in the pot[1]
- (especially automotive) Synonym of monkey metal.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Edward H[enry] Knight (1877) “Pot metal”, in Knight’s American Mechanical Dictionary. […], volumes II (GAS–REA), New York, N.Y.: Hurd and Houghton […], →OCLC.