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leaded, ppl. a.|ˈlɛdɪd| Also 3 i-leaded. [f. lead v.2 + -ed1.] In senses of the vb.a. Covered, lined, loaded, or weighted with lead.
a1225Ancr. R. 418 Ne beate ou..mid schurge i-leðered ne i-leaded. 1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xvii. xxvi. (1495) 619 Smyten downe wyth leded arowes. 1538Leland Itin. V. 39 The Chirch of S. Oswalde is a very faire leddid Chirch. 1625Bacon Ess., Building (end), Tarrasses, Leaded aloft, and fairely garnished. 1726Cavallier Mem. i. 108, I perceived by chance in a Dyer's House great Leaded Kettles, of above seven hundred Quintals weight. 1862G. G. Scott Rep. in Willis & Clark Cambridge (1886) II. 328, I have introduced a timber leaded flèche as a belfry. 1887Rider Haggard Jess 3 He saw the ostrich's thick leg fly high into the air and then sweep down like a leaded bludgeon! 1891T. Hardy Tess (1900) 124/2 The marble monuments and leaded skeletons at Kingsbere. fig.1889Skrine Mem. E. Thring 129 Who forgets the leaded accents with which he would say, ‘that's fatal!’ b. Of panes of glass: Fitted into leaden cames.
1855Ogilvie Suppl., Leaded,..set in lead; as leaded windows. 1870Morris Earthly Par. III. iv. 229 The drone Of the great organ shook the leaded panes. 1887J. J. Hissey Holiday on Road 27 Gothic porches, leaded latticed windows. c. Printing. Having the lines separated by leads.
1864in Craig Suppl. 1871Amer. Encycl. Printing (ed. Ringwalt), Leaded Matter, matter with leads between the lines. 1886Pall Mall G. 10 Aug. 1/1 The leaded articles penned in Fleet-street. 1893R. Kipling Many Invent. 166, I wrote three-quarters of a leaded bourgeois column. d. Affected by lead-poisoning.
1878J. H. Beadle Western Wilds xxxv. 581 Great care must be taken by the workmen not to get ‘leaded’, that is, not to inhale the fumes from the melted lead, which are very poisonous. 1906Daily Chron. 28 June 6/4 The children of ‘leaded’ mothers usually die, or if they live inherit the effects of the poison. 1914Dialect Notes IV. 163 Leaded, among miners, ill from lead poisoning. e. Containing added lead.
1936Blackw. Mag. Mar. 359/2 It was said that Archie had obtained a special supply of leaded fuel, which would allow him to bring in the Kestrel supercharger near the ground. 1939Carpenter & Robertson Metals II. xv. 1317 Alloys in the fifth group are those to which large amounts of lead are added to improve their suitability for certain types of bearings... These alloys are known as the ‘plastic’ or ‘leaded’ bronzes. 1963H. R. Clauser Encycl. Engin. Materials 370/1 Sheet lead and sheets of leaded plastics are also being used to control noise. 1968E. R. Petty Physical Metall. Engin. Materials xiii. 266 Operators must be shielded from this penetrating radiation and for this purpose..a foot of concrete or several feet of water (usually in a leaded-glass jacket) are necessary. 1972Lancet 1 July 12/2 All the subjects had been simultaneously exposed to tetraethyl lead during the process of scaling a tank which had contained leaded petrol. |