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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An alloy of tin and copper used to make bells.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A variety of bronze, an alloy of copper and tin, of which bells are made.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- A hard alloy or bronze, consisting usually of about three parts of copper to one of tin; -- used for making bells.
- a sulphide of tin, copper, and iron; the mineral stannite.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A hard
alloy of about three parts ofcopper to one oftin , used for makingbells .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun bronze with 3 or 4 parts copper to 1 part tin; used in making bells
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