spelter
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of spelter
1655–65; origin uncertain; akin to Middle Dutch speauter, German spiauter spelter
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The second is "spelter," or soft fusible brass, and the third is an alloy of silver and brass called silver solder.
From On Laboratory Arts by Richard Threlfall
After coming from the spelter and being cooled by water, the wire is wound on suitable take-up blocks into finished coils.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" by Various
The heating may be interrupted when the spelter is observed to have melted into a continuous mass.
From On Laboratory Arts by Richard Threlfall
Drugs, pepper, coffee, tea, other sugars, indigo, cochineal, copper, and spelter, 7000 loads.
From Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume I (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird
"But, jiminy spelter, we'd all be lost in the place!"
From Money Magic A Novel by Hamlin Garland
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