Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The name given to the zinc imported into Europe from China and the East Indies, and formerly, especially in the second half of the eighteenth century, an article of considerable commercial importance—this metal having been purchased by the Dutch in China and by them distributed through the East Indies and supplied to India proper, whence more or less of it found its way to Europe, where its manufacture seems to have been begun on a small scale, both in Germany and in England, about 1730.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun India Crude zinc.
- noun Packfong.
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- noun India
crude zinc - noun
paktong
Etymologies
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From Tamil துத்தநாகம் thuthanaagam meaning "raw zinc" (Source: OED) French toutenague; compare Portuguese tutenaga, tutanaga. See tutty.
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-- E.] [Footnote 159: Perhaps the mixed metal called tutenag may be here meant.
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 07 Robert Kerr 1784
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Crude zinc
February 11, 2007