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▪ I. ‖ potin1|pɔtæ̃|
Also 7 pottain.
[F. potin (13th c. in Hatz.-Darm., also potain 1582 in Godef.), f. pot pot n.1 + -in: cf. -ine4.]
1. Old pot-metal (pot-metal 1, 3).
1601Holland Pliny II. 505 Such pottain or old mettall which is ouerworne, and by ordinary occupying and vsing to the hand, bright-shining. 1825J. Nicholson Operat. Mechanic 348 To work all the surface into furrows or grooves, in order that it may retain the substance called the potin, which is to be welded upon one side of the iron, to form the hard matter on which the holes are to be pierced. This potin is nothing but fragments of old cast-iron pots. Ibid. 349 It must be repeatedly heated and worked until the potin fixes to the iron. The workman then throws dry powdered clay upon it, in order..to soften the potin.
2. A name for an alloy of tin, copper, lead, and zinc, used in coining by the ancient Gauls.
1853Humphreys Coin-Coll. Man. xi. (1876) 134 Many of the coins are of base metal (potin).
▪ II. ‖ potin2 rare.|pɔtæ̃|
[Fr.]
A piece of gossip; a rumpus, a row.
1922M. Arlen Piracy ii. vi. 111 He would hear of great dinners and dances and potins. 1938G. Arthur Not Worth Reading vi. 86 No shred of evidence could ever be adduced to reinforce the potin that Fred Archer was the natural son of a peer. 1945E. Waugh Brideshead Revisited i. vi. 136 ‘What's going on?’ ‘Oh, just another boring family potin. Sebastian got tight again.’ |