(n.) A hard, tough, but easily fusible, alloy, originally consisting of tin with a little lead, but afterwards modified by the addition of copper, antimony, or bismuth.
(n.) Utensils or vessels made of pewter, as dishes, porringers, drinking vessels, tankards, pots.
Example Sentences:
(1) Scores of archaeologists working in a waterlogged trench through the wettest summer and coldest winter in living memory have recovered more than 10,000 objects from Roman London , including writing tablets, amber, a well with ritual deposits of pewter, coins and cow skulls, thousands of pieces of pottery, a unique piece of padded and stitched leather – and the largest collection of lucky charms in the shape of phalluses ever found on a single site.
(2) The pewter trait is allelic with and phenotypically identical to platinum, and represents an independent recurrence of this mutant.
(3) All of them were employed in small (not more than 30 persons) pewter factories and were randomly selected from those regularly controlled by the National Health Service, Occupational Health Unit of Brescia (USSL 41).
(4) An interview with Messud in New York magazine – in the form of an "at home" with her and her husband James Wood, once of this parish and now book critic at the New Yorker – kicks off by telling us that her hair has turned grey, swiftly qualified to a somewhat classier-sounding pewter, which, luckily, looks well with her shirt and necklace.
(5) Naked bulbs sit in glass lantern boxes on the walls; tiny pewter plates are laid on light oak refectory tables.
(6) Other finds include an amber charm in the shape of a gladiator's helmet, which may have been a good luck charm for an actual gladiator; a horse harness ornament combining two lucky symbols, a fist and a phallus, plus clappers to make a jingling sound as the horse moved; and a set of fine-quality pewter bowls and cups, which were deliberately thrown into a deep well.
(7) The results of a survey performed in 50 pewter manufacturing workers, as well as in 16 workmen involved in artistic bronze melting, are also reported.
(8) Compared with 1980, say, when Golding's Rites of Passage pipped Burgess's Earthly Powers , this is an age of pewter.
(9) The woman beside me – Stars ’n’ Stripes Hat – was wearing a pewter elephant pendant.
(10) It is the same with Miss Amelia Martin in "The Milliner's Mishap", eyeing up her friend's wedding breakfast ("pewter-pots at the corners; pepper, mustard and vinegar in the centre; vegetables on the floor") – a world so vivid and variegated to the person writing about it that there is almost too much to set down.
(11) I slammed the rusting door, and set off with my binoculars through a forest washed pewter with frost.
Slate
Definition:
(v. t.) An argillaceous rock which readily splits into thin plates; argillite; argillaceous schist.
(v. t.) Any rock or stone having a slaty structure.
(v. t.) A prepared piece of such stone.
(v. t.) A thin, flat piece, for roofing or covering houses, etc.
(v. t.) A tablet for writing upon.
(v. t.) An artificial material, resembling slate, and used for the above purposes.
(v. t.) A thin plate of any material; a flake.
(v. t.) A list of candidates, prepared for nomination or for election; a list of candidates, or a programme of action, devised beforehand.
(v. t.) To cover with slate, or with a substance resembling slate; as, to slate a roof; to slate a globe.
(v. t.) To register (as on a slate and subject to revision), for an appointment.
(v. t.) To set a dog upon; to bait; to slat. See 2d Slat, 3.
Example Sentences:
(1) The slate was wiped clean “as far as I am concerned”, Corbyn added, before taking a swipe at the alleged purge of some of his supporters over comments made on Twitter.
(2) For that matter, mulching with bark, grit or slate will help keep the surface roots cooler and retain moisture in hot weather.
(3) Joe Muto, Slate The Newsroom can be read as Sorkin's attempt to cure what's ailing the news industry, but he's misdiagnosing the patient.
(4) They were apparently trying to promote a healthy lifestyle to the Russian public, but Muscle and Fitness magazine slated the president’s technique: “his cable crossover form is crap”.
(5) The Hill reports : Senate Republicans elected a slate of white men to their top five leadership positions on Wednesday, and some GOP lawmakers feared the House would follow suit at a time when Republicans have said they need to find ways to reach out to women and minorities.
(6) Some establishment party figures have blamed the event for prematurely narrowing the field and forcing candidates to compete in what top GOP strategist David Kochel (now slated to be Jeb Bush’s national campaign manager) once called “a goat rodeo”.
(7) While we do expect some significant strength in the top two to three spots in 2015,” he wrote, “we are not convinced that the overall slate is going to drive performance that is significantly better than what we have generally seen over the past four years.” He also fears that the rise in superhero blockbusters is going to lead to disaster for some studios, in the same way that a wider pool of animated films has led to some casualties, with underwhelming receipts for Penguins of Madagascar and Mr Peabody & Sherman most recently.
(8) For now, we can't tell, but the Moritz-Heyman scholarships will help us find out by creating a group of graduates who will start on the career ladder with a near-clean slate.
(9) The conviction was subsequently wiped from his record under German clean-slate legislation.
(10) David Fincher was originally slated to direct the project , but Boyle manages to put his own distinct imprint on it: the film has Boyle’s characteristic frenetic energy, and boasts colourful visuals.
(11) Besides, Corbyn wanted to wipe the slate clean – though he was not yet ready to explain what steps he would take to do so – and to remind the party that there was more that united it than divided it.
(12) He was slated to give a commencement speech at his alma mater in 2013, but withdrew after controversy arose in wake of his remarks comparing same-sex marriage to pedophilia.
(13) That panel is slated to deliver final recommendations as early as this month, although it may slip into the new year.
(14) There are a number of things that need to be repealed, but I think what we need to focus on first is what would we replace it with,” Alexander told Slate about a week after the election.
(15) The French unit also has proposals for a new film from Dutch genre icon Paul Verhoeven and a remake of 1988 cult horror Maniac Cop on its slate for Cannes.
(16) These are slated to move from London to the new Media City development by 2011.
(17) I have now left the defence force with a clean slate.
(18) The policy was known as “contraction” and it was slated to shut down two clubs, the other being the Minnesota Twins, a team that is thriving years after the policy foundered.
(19) A restaurant firm slated to open an outlet in Trump’s new Washington DC hotel complained that the remarks were damaging to them.
(20) His papers, which are stored in more than 200 slate-grey boxes, describe fascinating connections to a roll call of the great and the good: Shirley Williams, Ruth First, Nadine Gordimer, Henry Kissinger, Trevor Huddleston, Nelson Mandela , Anthony Crosland, Michael Heseltine, Ted Heath, John Cleese, David Cornwell (John le Carré) and many more.