Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Lead in pigs; lead in the form in which it is ordinarily offered for sale after reduction from the ore.
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Examples
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Fabulous, desirable cargoes presented with a soft sheen, against practical pig-lead dirty against the waves.
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Fabulous, desirable cargoes presented with a soft sheen, against practical pig-lead dirty against the waves.
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You that will have all solid, and a world of pig-lead, deceive yourselves grossly.
Representative Men 2006
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She is ballasted with utilities; not altogether with unusable pig-lead and kentledge.
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While his diving-bell boat was building, a barge loaded with pig-lead sank in the rapids at Keokuk,
James B. Eads Louis How 1910
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The purport of such works is the conversion of pig-lead into white-lead.
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She is ballasted with utilities; not altogether with unusable pig-lead and kentledge.
Moby Dick, or, the whale Herman Melville 1855
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For, upon the great canal of Hang-Ho, or whatever they call it, in China, four or five laborers on the foot-path will draw a bulky freighted junk at the rate of a mile an hour; but this grand argosy we towed heavily forged along, as if laden with pig-lead in bulk.
Moby Dick, or, the whale Herman Melville 1855
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She is ballasted with utilities; not altogether with unusable pig-lead and kentledge.
Moby Dick: or, the White Whale Herman Melville 1855
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For, upon the great canal of Hang-Ho, or whatever they call it, in China, four or five laborers on the foot-path will draw a bulky freighted junk at the rate of a mile an hour; but this grand argosy we towed heavily forged along, as if laden with pig-lead in bulk.
yarb commented on the word pig-lead
See also piglead. Citation on argosy.
July 26, 2008