Pewter

['pjuːtə] or ['pjʊtɚ]

Definition

(noun.) any of various alloys of tin with small amounts of other metals (especially lead).

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Definition

(n.) 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.

(n.) Utensils or vessels made of pewter, as dishes, porringers, drinking vessels, tankards, pots.

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Definition

n. an alloy of four parts of tin and one of lead: sometimes tin with a little copper and antimony: a vessel made of pewter esp. a beer-tankard: (slang) prize-money.—adj. made of pewter.—ns. Pew′terer one who works in pewter; Pew′ter-mill a lapidaries' polishing-wheel for amethyst agate &c.—adj. Pew′tery belonging to pewter.

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Unserious Contents or Definition

To dream of pewter, foretells straitened circumstances. See Dishes.

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