white-metalv.
/ˈwʌɪtˌmɛtl/, U.S. /ˈ(h)waɪtˌmɛdl/ transitive. To coat or line with white metal (alloy); to cover over with white metal.
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society > occupation and work > industry > working with specific materials > working with metal > work with metal [verb (transitive)] > coat or cover with metal > with specific metal
tin1398
leadc1440
ironc1450
lay1472
copper1530
braze1552
silverize1605
foliate1665
plate1686
whiten1687
foil1714
blanch1729
quicken1738
amalgam1789
quick1790
aluminize1791
plate1791
zincify1801
platinize1825
resilver1832
galvanize1839
electroplate1843
zinc1843
electro-silver1851
platinate1858
electrotin1859
white-lead1863
palladiumize1864
white-metal1864
brassc1865
nickelize1865
nickel-plate1872
nickel1875
stopper1884
electro1891
sherardize1904
steel1911
stellite1934
flame-plate1954
steel-face1961
1864 London Soc. 6 69/1 What would be pence and halfpence with us, are represented by small pieces of brass or base money, silvered or white-metalled over, legibly stamped ‘Helvetia’ on one side.
1896 Steamship 7 385/2 In white-metalling a new bearing, a good plan is to have the bearing cast with longitudinal recesses or channels.
1928 Railway Engineer Oct. 368/2 It is usual and best for the whole of the bearing area to be white metalled over.
1963 Kempe's Engineers Year-bk. (ed. 68) I. 1093 The surface of the slipper should be white-metalled over or have large pockets of white metal.
1994 L. Hall Insight into Steam 21/2 The bearing surfaces, of which there are two, are white-metalled (coated with lead).
2013 B. Eaglesfield Bugatti the Designer 118 The main and big end bearings were white metalled.
Derivatives
white-metalled adj. coated or lined with white metal (alloy).
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1876 S. D. Scott To Jamaica & Back i. 3 A swinging white-metalled moderator is supplied to each divisional table.
1971 Wear 17 11 It was known that the presence of white metal was not essential to the failure process and therefore a more robust pin which did not require the support of a white-metalled pad was used.
2003 M. A. Laughton & D. F. Warne Electr. Engineer's Ref. Bk. (ed. 16) xxviii. 45/1 The face, or thrust, type of seal is a ring, usually of white metalled steel, which operated against the radial face of a collar on the shaft.
white-metalling n. the process of applying a coating of white metal (alloy).
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1896 Steamship 7 386/2 For who amongst them does not know of the annoyance of heated bearings, and what a boon to most of them this white metalling has been.
1928 Railway Engineer Oct. 368/1 Before white-metalling the whole of the bearing area should be carefully cleaned and tinned.
1997 Times 26 Apr. (Car Suppl.) 5/6 A workshop using old machinery will be set up at the museum, to undertake old-fashioned techniques such as white metalling and line boring.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2015; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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