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metalled, ppl. a.|ˈmɛt(ə)ld|
[f. metal n. or v. + -ed.]
1.
†a. Consisting or made of metal; containing metal. Also in comb., as pure metalled. Obs.
1591Jas. I Poet. Exerc., Lepanto, Sonet, The mettal'd minds [= mines]. 1609Davies Holy Roode F 3 b, Looke on this Crosse..It cures forth-with, like Moises metl'd Snake. a1638Mede Wks. iii. (1672) 587 The four metalled parts thereof [sc. The Monarchical Image in Daniel] were Types of four..Kingdoms. 1655W. Gurnall Chr. In Arm. verse xv. § 1 (1669) 358/2 That is the pure metall'd Sword or Knife, which bends this way, and that way, but returns to its straitness again.
†b. transf. Composed of material (of a certain kind). Obs.
1575Laneham Let. (Ballad Soc.) 20, I cannot tell what too make of him, saue that I may gesse hiz bak be metalld like a Lamprey.
c. Having a covering or fittings of metal.
1821W. C. Wells Ess. on Dew (1866) 36 These differences were caused by the metalled case obstructing the transmission of the temperature of the air to the enclosed instrument. 1876Dixon White Conq. I. xvi. 155 A stream of sunshine lies on painted wall and metalled roof. 1885Pall Mall G. 14 Feb. 7/2 The expediency of replacing the heavily metalled lamps at the Guards' Memorial with globes of modern construction.
2. Of roads: Made with ‘metal’.
1825J. C. Loudon Encycl. Agric. 511 In a road from a highway to a farmery, it may often be advisable to place the metalled road in the middle. 1839Penny Cycl. XX. 31/1 The formation of metalled roads. 1878N. Amer. Rev. CXXVII. 154 Railways and good metaled roads. 1955Times 25 June 7/6 They live in this far-away valley at the end of a good metalled road that accompanied by power and telephone lines winds over the pass from Malakand. 1969Jane's Freight Containers 1968–69 139/2 It has its own drinking water system, sewage, drains, metalled roads and mains.
†3. In well-metalled: well paid, remunerative.
a1734North Lives (1826) I. 249 The traverses of these indictments, tried at the assizes,..are..beyond what are had in most of the circuit beside, and well-metalled causes. |