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red lead, red-lead
[See lead n.1 2.]
1. A red oxide of lead, largely used as a pigment.
c1450M.E. Med. Bk. (Heinrich) 202 Tak ceruse..Redled..litarge [etc.]. 1466Mann. & Househ. Exp. (Roxb.) 349, ij. li. of rede lede..viijd. 1507Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot. (1902) IV. 90 Item, payit to Pieris, the payntour, for..caddes, verneis, Rede lede,..gold fulze [etc.] xxxijs. viij. 1578Lyte Dodoens ii. viii. 157 Of the colour of Red-lead, or lyke to the colour of the Orenge pill. 1612Peacham Gentl. Exerc. 17 To draw with drie colours, you may make long pastils, which you shall doe by grinding red lead, or any other colour with strong wort. 1675A. Browne App. Ars Pict. 7 A Temperature of White Carmine and a little Red Lead. 1744Berkeley Siris §196 Mr. Hales attributes this effect to air enclosed in the red lead. 1800tr. Lagrange's Chem. I. 388 The nitric acid produces no change in the nature of the red lead. 1868Joynson Metals 122 Paint containing red-lead must be carefully eschewed.
b. attrib. and Comb., as red-lead cask, red lead colour, red lead maker (1885), red lead mill, † red lead pen (= pencil), red lead pencil, red lead putty.
1670Pettus Fodinæ Regales xxv. 37 At the Red Lead Mill. Ibid., Several sets of Coopers Tools..necessary for making Red Lead Cask. 1678Ray Willughby's Ornith. 364 The Eyes are red like the Bill, or rather of a red-lead colour. 1684T. Goddard Plato's Demon 12, I perceive indeed that your red Lead Pen hath examin'd it very strictly. 1766Compl. Farmer s.v. Surveying 7 I 2/1 We would commend for expedition a red-lead pen, whereby you may mark out every angle neatly. 1807Aikin Dict. Chem. & Min. I. 587/2 What are vulgarly called Red-lead pencils are composed of thin slips of the finer kinds of reddle inclosed in a wooden case. 1891Patterson Illust. Naut. Dict. i. 146 Red Lead Putty, a mixture of white lead and red lead used for various purposes.
†2. red lead of Siberia, red lead-ore (see red 17 e). Obs.
1816J. Smith Panorama Sc. & Art II. 411 Chromium was discovered by Vauquelin, in analyzing a beautiful mineral called red lead of Siberia.
3. Naval slang.
a. Tomato ketchup.
b. Tinned tomatoes.
1918R. W. Kauffman Our Navy at Work 6 ‘Red lead’ is catsup, which it hugely resembles. 1919G. M. Battey 70,000 Miles in Submarine Destroyer 261 Beans and ‘red lead’ for breakfast. 1945‘Tackline’ Holiday Sailor v. 55 Everything went into a pot-mess—meat, spuds, peas, beans, rice, oxo, ‘red-lead’ (tinned tomatoes)—and the result was invariably good. 1959W. L. Corzine Sailors in Nightgowns vii. 100 We were having those delicious beans for breakfast, which we always camouflaged with red lead (catsup).
Hence red-lead v. trans., to paint with red lead; red-leader, a workman in the shipbuilding industry who scrapes iron plates and paints them with red lead.
1882Standard 13 Oct. 2/3 A non-union man was employed as red leader. 1890Daily News 30 Sept. 3/2 The work of chipping, scraping, and red-leading her iron work is being proceeded with. |