Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of numerous silver-gray alloys of tin with various amounts of antimony, copper, and sometimes lead, used widely for fine kitchen utensils and tableware.
- noun Pewter articles considered as a group.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A material made of calcined tin, used in polishing marble.
- noun An alloy of four parts of tin with one of lead.
- noun A vessel made of pewter; a tankard; a beerpot.
- noun Collectively, vessels made of pewter.
- noun Money; prize-money.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A hard, tough, but easily fusible, alloy, originally consisting of tin with a little lead, but afterwards modified by the addition of copper, antimony, or bismuth.
- noun Utensils or vessels made of pewter, as dishes, porringers, drinking vessels, tankards, pots.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An
alloy of approximately 93–98%tin , 1–2%copper , and the balance ofantimony . - noun historical An alloy of tin and
lead . - noun items made of pewter.
- noun A dark, dull grey colour, like that of the metal.
- adjective Of a dark, dull grey colour, like that of the metal.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any of various alloys of tin with small amounts of other metals (especially lead)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Reaper does everything on site, from sculpting the minis, to casting them in pewter, to sorting, packaging, and shipping out internet orders.
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That has to be very cool to see your literary creations made corporeal in pewter (and then hand painted!).
Pick Your Pewter Poison grrm 2010
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Reaper does everything on site, from sculpting the minis, to casting them in pewter, to sorting, packaging, and shipping out internet orders.
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Different from true pewter, Mexican pewter is primarily aluminum.
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Dunn spent his first five seasons in pewter before a six-year stint with the Atlanta Falcons.
Bucs need healthy Garcia in the huddle to take next playoff step 2008
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I have a guess what of truth there may be in that; and you the fair Alchemist, are you not all the richer and better that you know the essential gold, and will not have it called pewter or spelter, though in the shops it is only such?
The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I Carlyle, Thomas 1883
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Alchemist, are you not all the richer and better that you know the _essential_ gold, and will not have it called pewter or spelter, though in the shops it is only such?
The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I Thomas Carlyle 1838
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During the late troubles, the treasures of the state, and even the furniture of the palace, had been alienated or embezzled; the royal banquet was served in pewter or earthenware; and such was the proud poverty of the times, that the absence of gold and jewels was supplied by the paltry artifices of glass and gilt-leather.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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But it is unseemly to see such a Grand Potentate in such a state of decay: the son of Bajazet Ilderim insolvent; the descendants of the Prophet bullied by Calmucs and English and whipper-snapper Frenchmen; the Fountain of Magnificence done up, and obliged to coin pewter!
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The tin alloy called pewter, which used to contain some lead and now is made with 7% antimony and 2% copper, is not much used today.
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004
frogapplause commented on the word pewter
Nice glossary of pewter terms here.
June 15, 2010
hernesheir commented on the word pewter
"The heart case of Richard Coeur de Leon was found at Rouen in 1838, and that of Charles V in 1862, and one has been found at Holbrook in Suffolk. All these these seem to have been made of pewter." -- H. J. L. J. Massé, The Pewter Collector - A Guide to English Pewter with some Reference to Foreign Work, 1921, p 117.
December 31, 2011