white-heartadj.n.
/ˈwʌɪthɑːt/, U.S. /ˈ(h)waɪtˌhɑrt/ A. adj. (attributive).
1. white-heart cherry n. any of a group of varieties of sweet cherry bearing heart-shaped fruits with whitish skins and flesh; a fruit of such a variety. Cf. black heart n. 1, red-heart n. 1.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > stone fruit > cherry > types of cherry
black cherry1530
geana1533
Plinian1577
mazzard1578
mazardc1595
merry1595
Flanders cherry1597
heart cherry1599
cherrylet1605
agriot1611
morel1611
cœur-cherry1626
bigarreau1629
May-cherry1629
morello1629
urinal cherry1629
white-heart cherry1629
duracine1655
heart1658
black heart1664
carnation1664
duke1664
honey cherrya1671
nonsuch1674
merise1675
red-hearta1678
prince royal1686
lukeward1707
white-heart1707
May duke1718
Royal Ann1724
ox-heart1731
ratafia1777
choke-cherry1785
mountain cherry1811
rum cherry1818
sour cherry1884
Napoleon1886
Napoleon cherry1933
1629 J. Parkinson Paradisi in Sole iii. xii. 572 Some doe call the white cherrie, the White hart cherrie.
1676 M. Cook Manner of raising Forrest-trees iv. 8 I have oft observed in your black Heart, white Heart, and other great-leaved Cherries, this Dew to fall upon them at the top.
1764 Eng. Illustr. I. 76 There is a small wild white heart cherry, peculiar to a little spot in this country near Frodsham.
1818 Trans. Hort. Soc. London (ed. 2) 2 137 The pale variety is the offspring of a blossom which was fecundated by the pollen of the White Hart Cherry.
1869 R. D. Blackmore Lorna Doone I. xxvi. 306 The blackbirds eating our white-heart cherries.
1937 Times 23 Aug. 15/4 Who in nature has the greater right to the white heart cherries, the squirrel.., or the human-being who has the produce of the world at his command?
2011 Daily Mail (Nexis) 29 Oct. ‘White-heart’ cherries can also be tasty, especially when ripened to the point of blushing.
2. Of a cabbage or lettuce: having a whitish or very pale green heart (heart n. 16a(c)). Also: having whitish flesh or heartwood.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [adjective] > of or like cabbage, broccoli, etc.
cabbaged1577
loafed1578
cabbagy1705
white-heart1718
pe-tsai1788
broccoli-like1873
the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > vegetables > leaf vegetables > [adjective] > lettuce
white-heart1718
the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > vegetables > cabbage or kale > [adjective] > cabbage
white-heart1718
1718 Dancing-master: Vol. 2nd (ed. 3) 349 (title) White heart Cabages; or, Easter Tuesday.
1747 H. Glasse Art of Cookery iv. 57 Take a fine White-heart Cabbage.
1789 F. Nutt Compl. Confectioner 141 Get some of the finest peaches, free from all spot colour, what is called the white heart peach.
1814 F. Pursh Flora Amer. Septentrionalis II. 638 Juglans tomentosa... This is known under the name of Mocker Nut, White-heart Hickory or Common Hickory.
1839 Southern Agriculturalist Mar. 123 ‘John's Island’ seems to give the preference to the white heart potatoes with red skins, over the ‘yellow hearts’ or brimstones.
1900 Daily Express 25 Apr. 6/4 Fine white-heart lettuces.
1936 Ecol. Monogr. 6 130 White-heart hickory, Carya alba.
2007 A. Walter & V. Lebot Gardens of Oceania (English ed.) 239/2 In Vanuatu the white-heart cabbage is eaten raw or boiled.
3. Originally U.S. Metallurgy. Designating a type of malleable cast iron from which carbon has been removed by annealing at a high temperature in oxidizing conditions, leaving a structure of iron carbide in a metallic matrix. Also: designating the process of making such iron; made of such iron. Cf. black heart n. 3.This type of malleable cast iron is produced by the Réaumur process, and is also called Réaumur malleable cast iron (see Réaumur n. 3).
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > iron > [adjective] > made of cast iron > types of cast iron
chilled1831
black heart1872
white-heart1911
spheroidal1920
nodular1947
society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > iron > [noun] > type of iron > cast iron > other types of cast iron
grey iron1665
white iron1665
run metal1741
white cast iron1792
mottled iron1836
tender-floss1839
pot metal1854
semi-steel1858
silicon iron1878
white-heart1911
white-heart1928
1911 Foundry 38 261/1 In the case of whiteheart malleable, the crystallization will be coarser in the corresponding portion of the fracture.
1917 Jrnl. Franklin Inst. 184 885 Malleable cast iron is produced..from white cast iron by either the ‘black-heart’ or the ‘white-heart’ process.
1949 J. E. Garside Process & Physical Metall. xxi. 374 Malleable cast-irons are made by two methods—..(2) The Whiteheart process, also known as the European or Réaumur process.
2012 R. Singh Appl. Welding Engin. vii. 60 This category of malleable iron has two types; white heart iron and black heart iron.
B. n.
1. = white-heart cherry n. at sense A. 1.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > stone fruit > cherry > types of cherry
black cherry1530
geana1533
Plinian1577
mazzard1578
mazardc1595
merry1595
Flanders cherry1597
heart cherry1599
cherrylet1605
agriot1611
morel1611
cœur-cherry1626
bigarreau1629
May-cherry1629
morello1629
urinal cherry1629
white-heart cherry1629
duracine1655
heart1658
black heart1664
carnation1664
duke1664
honey cherrya1671
nonsuch1674
merise1675
red-hearta1678
prince royal1686
lukeward1707
white-heart1707
May duke1718
Royal Ann1724
ox-heart1731
ratafia1777
choke-cherry1785
mountain cherry1811
rum cherry1818
sour cherry1884
Napoleon1886
Napoleon cherry1933
1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry 546 In June are ripe the White, Red, Black and Bleeding Hearts.
1733 W. Ellis Chiltern & Vale Farming xii. 143 The May-duke, White-hart, Black-Orleance and the Morella.
1879 T. Murby Murby's Imperial Reader I. 64 The white and black cherries, called white-hearts and black-hearts, are the best for eating.
1899 B. L. Farjeon S. Boyd xxix. 142 The cherries were whitehearts, with the daintiest blush on their innocent cheeks.
1971 N.Z. Jrnl. Agric. Res. 14 519 Randomly sampled orchard trees of Bing,.., White Heart, and William's Favourite were infected.
2. Originally U.S. Whiteheart malleable cast iron (see sense A. 3).
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > iron > [noun] > type of iron > cast iron > other types of cast iron
grey iron1665
white iron1665
run metal1741
white cast iron1792
mottled iron1836
tender-floss1839
pot metal1854
semi-steel1858
silicon iron1878
white-heart1911
white-heart1928
1928 Bull. Brit. Cast Iron Res. Assoc. No. 19. 18 The recommended limits for sulphur and phosphorus are 0.20 per cent. S. and 0.40 per cent. P. for White Heart, and 0.10 per cent. S. and 0.2 per cent. P. for Black Heart.
1960 J. Laing & R. T. Rolfe Man. Foundry Pract. (ed. 3) x. 366 In the manufacture of whiteheart..the white iron is not only graphitised, but the carbon is also very largely removed.
2000 J. R. Brown Foseco Ferrous Foundryman's Handbk. (2001) vii. 90 Whiteheart can be melted in a cupola and is a low cost material which still finds applications in small, thin section castings.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2015; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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