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ˈsoldered, ppl. a. [f. solder v. + -ed1.] 1. a. Joined by means of solder. Also with up.
1599B. Jonson Cynthia's Rev. ii. ii, Hee will not depart with the waight of a sodred groat. 1725Fam. Dict. s.v. Reservatory, Solder'd Pipes are no other than Sheets of Lead, which they bend and solder together at the Junctures. 1834–47J. S. Macaulay Field Fortif. (1851) 210 In a well-soldered tin or iron case. 1843Holtzapffel Turning I. 433 All soldered works should be kept under motionless restraint for a period. 1887Encycl. Brit. XXII. 240/2 Secured in closely fitting soldered-up tinned-iron boxes. b. soldered dot (Building), a means of fastening sheet lead to woodwork, consisting of a mass of solder put in a depression in the lead after the latter has been fitted into a corresponding depression in the wood and a screw fixed through the bottom of it.
1893J. W. Clarke Lect. Plumbing 70/1 Soldered dots never last for any great length of time and the lead invariably breaks away from them. 1930P. Manser Plumbing & Gasfitting VII. xxii. 1606 Soldered dots are not quite satisfactory as they hold the lead too rigidly, and where the load on them is heavy the screws work through due to the strain on them. 1966G. E. Evans Pattern under Plough iii. 51 A circle of plumber's black is painted round the outside of the hollow, partly to confine the soldered dot, and partly to give the whole a neat decorative finish. 2. fig. and transf. Patched up; closely united.
1623Fletcher Bloody Brother ii. i, A soder'd friendship Piec'd out with promises. 1667Marvell Poems (Grosart) I. 218 He felt His alt'ring form and soder'd limbs to melt. 1859Darwin Orig. Spec. xii. (1860) 392 The shrivelled wings under the soldered elytra of many insular beetles. 1887G. Meredith Ball. & Poems 19 A rough ill-soldered scar..on his cheek-bone. |