Definitions for bell-metal

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Bell-Metal is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 205 anagrams from letters in bell-metal (-abeelllmt).

Definitions for bell-metal

noun

  1. an alloy of about 80 percent copper and 20 percent tin, sometimes with small amounts of lead and zinc, having low damping qualities and used especially for bells.

Origin of bell-metal

First recorded in 1535-45

Examples for bell-metal

The fracture, close-grained, is that of steel or bell metal.

Now I think of it, tell the Bishop of Clogher, he shall not cheat me of one inch of my bell metal.

Women of the milkman caste wear bangles of bell metal, often up to the elbow.

By this process, from 100 pounds of bell metal, about 50 pounds of copper were extracted, containing only one per cent.

The varying tones of bells are due to the different percentages of copper and tin used in the bell metal.

Bells, Steam-Whistles, and in fine every variety of article manufactured from brass or bell metal will be made at this foundry.

The preserving pan should be made of bell metal, flat at the bottom, very large in diameter, but not deep.

A name sometimes applied to German silver; at others, to pale brass and bell metal.

Second—Take a large turned cabbage, and boil it in a bell metal pot until it is done enough, or (if you think proper) too much.

Word Value for bell-metal
Scrable

6

Words with friends

9

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