terneplate
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Probably from terne (“colourless, drab, dull”) (as contrasted with the shiny appearance of tinplate) + plate (“layer of a material on the surface of something, plating”).[1]
Noun
[edit]terneplate (countable and uncountable, plural terneplates)
- (also attributively) Thin iron or steel sheeting coated with an alloy of lead and tin (or, more recently, zinc and tin), often with some antimony.
Alternative forms
[edit]Translations
[edit]thin iron sheeting coated with an alloy of lead and tin
References
[edit]- ^ “terne-plate, n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, December 2020.
