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
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.
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 Charles Hitchcock Sherrill
There were no lightning-rod agents to inveigle him into putting $100 worth of pot metal corkscrews on a $15 barn.
From Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 01 by William Cowper Brann
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