PEWTER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pewter mean? 

• PEWTER (noun)
  The noun PEWTER has 1 sense:

1. any of various alloys of tin with small amounts of other metals (especially lead)

  Familiarity information: PEWTER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PEWTER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of various alloys of tin with small amounts of other metals (especially lead)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("pewter" 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 

I could see clearly a room with a sanded floor, clean scoured; a dresser of walnut, with pewter plates ranged in rows, reflecting the redness and radiance of a glowing peat-fire.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

A tray of small glasses and pewter mugs stood beside them.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Two of the company, who were dressed in the weather-stained green doublet of foresters, lifted the big pot off the fire, and a third, with a huge pewter ladle, served out a portion of steaming collops to each guest.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was a change for them to turn their backs upon the cooking of Weltjie and of Ude, or the chambertin of old Q., and to dine upon a porter-house steak washed down by a pint of ale from a pewter pot.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In one hand he grasped a thick staff pointed and shod with metal, while in the other he held his coif or bonnet, which bore in its front a broad pewter medal stamped with the image of Our Lady of Rocamadour.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)