Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

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

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun An alloy of lead and tin, of which the Chinese make tea canisters.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun An alloy of lead and tin.

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

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

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  • Ha! Love the "apparently" in CD's defintion.

    May 16, 2011