pig lead
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of pig lead
First recorded in 1785–95
Example Sentences
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Truth to tell, he had simply handed her the stove, pig lead, and mold, and told her to go to work.
From The Barbarians by Ed Emshwiller
Australia before the war normally shipped lead concentrates and pig lead to England and also to Belgium, Germany, and Japan.
From The Economic Aspect of Geology by C. K. (Charles Kenneth) Leith
He had finished a tour of the warehouses, looking at the kegs of gunpowder and the casks of brandy, the piles of pig lead, the stacks of cases containing muskets.
From Time Crime by Kelly Freas
I observed heavy stacks of pig lead piled up about the warehouses.
From Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft
Twelve ounces of soft pig lead must be used at each joint for each inch in the diameter of the pipe.
From Elements of Plumbing by Samuel Edward Dibble
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