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tr. Palladius De re Rustica (Duke Humfrey) (1896) ix. l. 187 (MED) The water that gooth thorgh the leden penne Is rust corrupt.

c1450 Jacob's Well (1900) 121 (MED) Þou hast ynow & sparyst it..in kepyng monye in exces, tyl it be ruste-fretyn.

1595 F. Sabie Flora's Fortune To Rdr. Their Authour, who will straitwayes fetch foorth an olde rust-eaten Halberd.

1601 R. Chester Loves Martyr 29 Time that old rust-cankard wretch.

1628 T. May tr. Virgil Georgicks i. 24 Rust-eaten piles and swords.

a1739 C. Jarvis tr. M. de Cervantes Don Quixote (1742) I. i. 4 A suit of armour which..being mouldy and rust-eaten, had lain by, many long years, forgotten in a corner.

1744 J. Armstrong Art of preserving Health i. 11 The rust-complexion'd man..whose blood is dry.

1804 J. Grahame Sabbath 25 The blossoming pea, That climbs the rust-worn bars.

1868 F. H. Joynson Metals in Constr. 124 There are still some rust-preventing substances which cannot well be included amongst the coatings.

1891 A. Conan Doyle White Company II. xix. 140 The dark hard-faced cavalier in the rust-stained jupon.

1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. x. [Wandering Rocks] 232 A sailorman, rustbearded, sips from a beaker.

1951 L. E. H. Whitby & M. Hynes Med. Bacteriol. (ed. 5) iii. 30 Iron in the form of rust-free filings..reduces the oxidation-reduction potential of liquid media.

1983 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nexis) 1 Dec. A change to the Environmental Protection Act in 1976 deemed that all cans be made of ‘steel’—actually steel coated with rust-retardant tin.

1999 T. Gilling Sooterkin (2000) 76 Mrs Jakes's business regularly draws her to the rust-streaked gum tree opposite the shop of Messrs Lloyd and Lonsdale.

2009 Boston Globe (Nexis) 12 Apr. (Regional section) 2 Anyone who winds up with rust-stained laundry during the flushing process can get special cleaning instructions from the Water Division.