BRITANNIA METAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Britannia metal mean? 

• BRITANNIA METAL (noun)
  The noun BRITANNIA METAL has 1 sense:

1. an alloy similar to pewter

  Familiarity information: BRITANNIA METAL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BRITANNIA METAL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An alloy similar to pewter

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("Britannia metal" is a kind of...):

alloy; metal (a mixture containing two or more metallic elements or metallic and nonmetallic elements usually fused together or dissolving into each other when molten)

 Context examples 

“Exactly so,” replied Traddles, “all to be earned. Of course we have something in the shape of tea-spoons, because we stir our tea. But they're Britannia metal.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Traddles, exactly the same simple, unaffected fellow as he ever was, sits at the foot of the large table like a Patriarch; and Sophy beams upon him, from the head, across a cheerful space that is certainly not glittering with Britannia metal.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)