Definition of Pot metal

1. Noun. Cast iron used for making cooking wares.

Generic synonyms: Cast Iron

2. Noun. An alloy of copper and lead used especially for making large pots.
Generic synonyms: Alloy, Metal

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pot Metal

pot cheese
pot committed
pot farm
pot life
pot likker
pot limit
pot liquor
pot lives
pot luck
pot lucks
pot man
pot marigold
pot marigolds
pot marjoram
pot men
pot metal (current term)
pot mod
pot odds
pot pie
pot pies
pot plant
pot pourri
pot roast
pot scrubber
pot scrubber brush
pot scrubber brushes
pot scrubbers
pot shot
pot shots
pot still

Literary usage of Pot metal

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"dense enough, produced pot metal more heavily charged with colour. This was wilfully streaked, mottled and quasi- ..."

2. Cyclopædia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia, Commercial, Industrial by Edward Balfour (1871)
"pot metal (copper and lead) is improved by ¡je addition of tin, and the three metals will nix in almost any proportions. Zinc may be dded to put metal in ..."

3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and General (1890)
"In the case of plate glass the metal is, of course, uniformly coloured throughout, but coloured sheet glass may either be composed of “pot metal “ or ..."

4. Journal by Royal Society of Arts (Great Britain) (1858)
"The coloured glass thus produced was called pot metal, or pot metal glass, which was blown in circular pieces or tables, similar to common window glass, ..."

5. The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal (1880)
"Pot-metal glass is so called from being coloured with oxides of metals fused with ... Separate pieces of pot-metal glass are used for each colour required, ..."

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