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Definitions

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A compound metal, of which the Chinese make tea-canisters and the like. The ingredients are, apparently, lead and tin.

Wiktionary

  1. n. An alloy of lead and tin.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. An alloy of lead and tin, of which the Chinese make tea canisters.

Etymologies

  1. French, from Malay word for "tin", or perhaps Kalaa, the city from which it came. (Wiktionary)

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  • yarb Ha! Love the "apparently" in CD's defintion. May 15, 2011

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