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white iron
[= med.L. album ferrum, F. fer-blanc tin-plate.]
a. Tinned iron, tin-plate.
b. Cast iron of a silvery colour containing most or all of its carbon in combination.
1532Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot. VI. 155, vj mesouris of quhite irne for the hagbutis charge. 1632,1881[see iron n.1 2]. 1839Ure Dict. Arts 1252 The only alloy of iron interesting to the arts, is that with tin, in the formation of tin-plate, or white iron.
c. attrib. † white-iron man, smith, a tin-smith.
1731in Rec. Convent. Burghs Scot. (1885) V. 528 Spurriers, gunsmyths, whiteiron smyths. 1765Watt in Muirhead Invent. Watt. (1854) I. 13 My old white-iron man [footn., Anglicé, tin-man] is dead. 1785Boswell Hebrides 19 Aug., James Hood, White Iron Smith. 1814Scott Wav. lxiii, Deacon Clank, the white-iron smith. |