marine metal

noun

Definitions

  1. An alloy of lead, antimony, and mercury, made for sheathing ships.

    • Denithorne, Sherson and Smith's patent for a new-invented white composition, called marine metal, particularly useful for sheathing of ships and other valuable purposes

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