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lingot ? Obs. or arch.|ˈlɪŋgət|
Forms: 5 pl. lingattis, 7 (lignot), lingat(e, linget, (8 lignate), 6– lingot.
[a. F. lingot: see ingot.]
1. A mould in which metal is cast; = ingot 1.
1540Ld. Treas. Acc. Scot. in Pitcairn Crim. Trials I. 307* With other gold wark, to be meltit in ane grete lingot. 1686W. Harris tr. Lemery's Course Chym. (ed. 2) 36 Lingots are Iron molds [etc.]. 1688[see ingot 1].
2. A mass of metal shaped like the mould in which it has been cast; = ingot 2.
1488Ld. Treas. Acc. Scot. I. 84 Twa lingattis of gold. 1584Hudson Du Bartas' Judith v. (1608) 77 Golden lingots. 1605Camden Rem. (1637) 179 Among the Lacedemonians iron lingets quenched with vinegar that they may serve to no other use [have been used for money]. 1653H. Cogan tr. Pinto's Trav. xiv. (1663) 42 Lingots of silver. 1670Ld. Fountainhall in M. P. Brown Suppl. Decis. (1826) II. 477 Some lignates of copper. 1697Evelyn Numism. i. 13 They paid Sums in France by Lingat as well as in coin. 1776Swinburne Trav. Spain xliv. (1779) 409 The port of Cadiz, where the lingots of America are landed. 1801Hel. M. Williams Sk. Fr. Rep. I. xviii. 226 The vandalic fury that..melted into lingots the most exquisite pieces of bronze. 1841C. Mackay Mem. Pop. Delusions III. 187 The Baron..showed me a lingot of gold made out of pewter.
transf. and fig.1856Mrs. Browning Aur. Leigh vii. 1124 The house's front Was cased with lingots of ripe Indian corn. 1868Browning Ring & Bk. i. 459 Thence bit by bit I dug The lingot truth, that memorable day. |