Pewter

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Pewter \Pew"ter\ (p[=u]"t[~e]r), n. [OE. pewtyr, OF. peutre,
     peautre, piautre: cf. D. peauter, piauter, It. peltro, Sp. &
     Pg. peltre, LL. peutreum, pestrum. Cf. {Spelter}.]
     1. A hard, tough, but easily fusible, alloy, originally
        consisting of tin with a little lead, but afterwards
        modified by the addition of copper, antimony, or bismuth.


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     2. Utensils or vessels made of pewter, as dishes, porringers,
        drinking vessels, tankards, pots.
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     Note: Pewter was formerly much used for domestic utensils.
           Inferior sorts contain a large proportion of lead.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  pewter
       n : any of various alloys of tin with small amounts of other
           metals (especially lead)

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  35 Moby Thesaurus words for "pewter":
     aureate, brass, brassy, brazen, bronze, bronzy, copper, coppery,
     cupreous, cuprous, ferrous, ferruginous, gilt, gold, gold-filled,
     gold-plated, golden, iron, ironlike, lead, leaden, mercurial,
     mercurous, nickel, nickelic, nickeline, pewtery, quicksilver,
     silver, silver-plated, silvery, steel, steely, tin, tinny