单词 | lingot |
释义 | lingotn. Chiefly Scottish before late 17th cent. Now rare. 1. A mass of metal shaped like the mould in which it has been cast; = ingot n. 2. Also in figurative and extended use. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > metal in specific state or form > [noun] > cast metal > in form of pigs > pig, ingot, or bar gada1325 lingot1488 rod1494 niggot1579 nygot1579 ingot1582 sow1590 pig1620 forge-pig1839 1488 in T. Dickson Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1877) I. 84 Twa lingattis of gold. 1541 in J. B. Paul Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1907) VII. 423 Witht uther gold wark to be meltit in ane grete lingot. 1614 W. Camden Remaines (rev. ed.) 198 Among the Lacedemonians iron lingets quenched with vinegar that they may serue to no other vse [have been used for money]. 1653 H. Cogan tr. F. M. Pinto Voy. & Adventures xvii. 60 Lingots of silver. 1697 J. Evelyn Numismata i. 13 They paid Sums in France by Lingat, as well as in Coin. 1779 H. Swinburne Trav. Spain xliv. 409 The port of Cadiz, where the lingots of America are landed. 1801 H. M. Williams Sketches Manners French Republic I. xviii. 226 The vandalic fury that..melted into lingots the most exquisite pieces of bronze. 1841 C. Mackay Mem. Pop. Delusions III. 187 The Baron..showed me a lingot of gold made out of pewter. 1856 E. B. Browning Aurora Leigh vii. 314 The house's front Was cased with lingots of ripe Indian corn. 1868 R. Browning Ring & Bk. I. i. 25 Thence bit by bit I dug The lingot truth, that memorable day. 1912 Daily Consular & Trade Rep. (U.S. State Dept.) 6 Apr. 96 A business firm in Mexico is planning a plant for the manufacture of lingots of zinc. 1983 A. Tchernia in P. Garnsey et al. Trade Anc. Econ. viii. 96 A lingot of lead stamped with the name of the Segusiavi and a passage in Suetonius..prove that cities in the area might well have exploited their own mines. 2. A mould in which metal is cast; = ingot n. 1. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > metalworking equipment > [noun] > casting equipment > mould ingotc1386 pattern1492 lingot1549 core1728 striker1843 1549–50 in R. Renwick Extracts Rec. Stirling (1887) I. 58 Thir warklume..thre gret stedijs, thre lingnettis of irne, item the gret scheris. 1609 Hilderstoun Silver Mines I. f. 204v, in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Lingot(t For ane lignett to James Achesone to cast his essayis in, xx s. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 306/2 An Ingot or Lingate..is an Iron, Brass, or Copper Instrument, with an hollow place made in it, to receive and hold any sort of Metal cast into it. 1735 J. Barrow Dict. Polygraphicum I. at Ferretto Melt the whole in a wind furnace; then cast it into a lingot. 1815 F. Barrett Lives Alchemystical Philosophers 71 The Elector took some pieces of silver out of his pocket, and put them into the melting pot, and..poured out the entire, in perfect fusion, into a lingot. 1998 G. I. Eskin Ultrasonic Treatm. Light Alloy Melts vi. 229 We performed solidification of melts in metal or graphite lingots. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1488 |
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