pot metal
Americannoun
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an alloy of copper and lead, formerly used for making plumbing fixtures, bearings, etc.
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cast iron of a quality suitable for making pots.
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a low-grade nonferrous alloy used for die casting.
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Glassmaking. antique glass.
Etymology
Origin of pot metal
First recorded in 1685–95
Example Sentences
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It’s unclear where the five-foot, pot metal sphinx statue came from.
From Washington Post • Mar. 5, 2022
“The vast majority of parts — tubes, resistors, capacitors — are easily found. It’s things like pot metal switches, shafts, clutches for changing from AM/FM that give me fits.”
From Washington Post • Jan. 13, 2015
Their architectural portion is of a strong brassy yellow, that colour being provided by pot metal glass leaded in.
From Stained Glass Tours in England by Sherrill, Charles Hitchcock
The peculiar kind of glass in question is known as "pot metal blue," that is, it is stained a bluish violet throughout, and is not clear glass covered with flashings of blue glass.
From this excursion, however, the traveller brings back little information which might not have been had upon earth, excepting that the inhabitants of one of the planets, I forget which, were made of "pot metal."
From Moon Lore by Harley, Timothy
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