1) Alloy 2) Alloy containing tin 3) Alloy containing tin and lead 4) Alloy of tin and lead 5) Alloy used for mugs 6) Beer mug alloy 7) Bluish gray 8) Bluish-gray 9) Bluish-grey colour 10) British slang for a computer 11) Dark gray 12) Dull gray 13) It has a lead part 14) Like some antique tableware
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1) Alloy
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Pewter is a malleable metal alloy, traditionally 85–99% tin, with the remainder consisting of copper, antimony, bismuth and sometimes, less commonly today, lead. Silver is also sometimes used. Copper and antimony act as hardeners while lead is common in the lower grades of pewter, which have a bluish tint. It has a low melting point, around {con...
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• (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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New pewter is silvery in colour, becoming grey as it oxidises, and eventually turning almost black.
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tin-based alloy used as a material from which domestic utensils were fashioned. A brief treatment of pewter follows. For full treatment, metalwork: ... [6 related articles]
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See Shaded Silver.
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Traditionally an alloy containing 80% tin and 20% lead.
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Metal alloy that is composed mostly of tin (generally over 90 percent) combined with lead, antimony, bismuth, copper, and/or silver and where the formulation varies. When polished it has a silvery luster. It is a soft alloy that is worked by casting, hammering, or turning.
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Alloy made from tin, with hardening agents such as lead, copper and more rarely antimony, added. New pewter is silvery in colour, becoming grey as it oxidises, and eventually turning almost black. Quality pewter contains mainly tin and little lead. English pieces made before the 17thC show little decoration. Lower grades of pewter were used for tav …...
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Pew'ter noun [ Middle English
pewtyr , Old French
peutre ,
peautre ,
piautre : confer Dutch
peauter ,
piauter , Italian
peltro , Spanish & Portuguese
peltre , Late Latin
peutreum ,
pestrum . Confer
Spelter .]
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Pewter is an alloy of 80 percent tin and 20 percent lead, that ws once much used for making plates and drinking-cups.
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Pewter is British slang for silver coinage.
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Alloy of tin, antimony, copper, and lead
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n] - any of various alloys of tin with small amounts of other metals (especially lead)
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Tin-base white metal containing antimony and copper; 1 to 8% Sb and 0.25 to 3% Cu. Originally pewter would have contained 15% lead, now most pewters are lead-free.
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noun any of various alloys of tin with small amounts of other metals (especially lead)
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An alloy consisting principally of tin and lead or bismuth. The Pewterer's Company required that an alloy of not less than 94% tin and 6% of other metals be used for the finest quality English pewter.
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Any of various alloys of mostly tin with varying amounts of lead, copper, or antimony. Pewter has been known for centuries and was once widely used for domestic utensils but is now used mainly for ornamental ware
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A soft metallic alloy whose principle ingredient is tin. Pewter was sometimes used to create patterns or try out coining dies before regular production. But its softness rules it out for normal, circulating coinage.
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