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Definition: Pewter |
PewterNoun1. Any of various alloys of tin with small amounts of other metals (especially lead). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "pewter" was first used: sometime in the early 14th century. (references) |
Etymology: Pewter \Pew"ter\, noun. [from Old English expression pewtyr, Old French peutre, peautre, piautre: compare to Dutch peauter, piauter, Italian peltro, Spanish Portuguese peltre, Late Latin expression peutreum, pestrum. Compare to Spelter.]. (references) |
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Dream Interpretation | To dream of pewter, foretells straitened circumstances. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Literature | Pewter To scour the pewter, To do one's work. "But if she neatly scour her pewter, Give her the money that is dust' her." King: Orpheus and Eurydice. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Pewter is an alloy, traditionally of anywhere between three and nine parts tin, and one part lead. Modern pewter mixes the tin with copper, antimony and/or bismuth, as opposed to lead. The metal is blue-gray in colour and generally has a dull finish.A pewter is also the colloquial name for any pewter-made container, especially a pewter tankard. Tankards are certainly the most common pewter artifacts, although the metal is also used for plates, cutlery and jewellery.
Use of pewter was common from the Middle Ages up until the various developments in glass-making during the 18th and 19th centuries. Mass-production of glass products has seen glass universally replacing pewter in day-to-day life.
Pewter artifacts continue to be produced, mainly as decorative or specialist items.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Pewter."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Mixture | Alloy, amalgam; brass, chowchow, pewter; magma, half-and-half, melange, tertium quid, miscellany, ambigu, medley, mess, hotchpot, pasticcio, patchwork, odds and ends, all sorts; jumble; (disorder); salad, sauce, mash, omnium gatherum, gallimaufry, olla-podrida, olio, salmagundi, potpourri, Noah's ark, caldron texture, mingled yarn; mosaic; (variegation). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Pewter |
| English words defined with "pewter": Britannia metal ♦ Metallic paper ♦ Pewterer, Pewtery ♦ Queen's metal ♦ silverware ♦ White metal. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "pewter": Black Dog, Blue-gowns ♦ GLOBE, Grey Hen ♦ PEWTER FINISHER ♦ SILVERSMITH II. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "pewter": Spelter. (references) |
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 | Williamsburg, Virginia. The capitol of the Virginia colony during the eighteenth century which was reconstructed and restored to its original state by John D. Rockefeller, Jr. during the 1930s. The Golden Ball metalsmith and pewter shop. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Rockport, Massachusetts. Mrs. Whitney in front of her home and the pewter shop. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Pewter" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 95.68% of the time. "Pewter" is used about 139 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 95.68% | 133 | 27,614 |
| Noun (proper) | 4.32% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Total | 100.00% | 139 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "pewter": pewter pot ♦ pewter tankard ♦ pewter ware. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "pewter": pewter-coloured, pewter-grey, pewter-look, pewter-topped. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
pewter | 516 | clan irish pewter | 21 |
pewter charm | 89 | clan pewter scottish | 21 |
pewter goblet | 44 | clan pewter welsh | 20 |
seagull pewter | 42 | clan heraldic pewter | 20 |
pewter figurine | 35 | pewter chess set | 20 |
pewter wholesale | 33 | pewter tray | 19 |
pewter casting | 32 | pewter collectible | 19 |
mexican pewter | 27 | pewter cleaning | 19 |
pewter gift | 27 | pewter belt buckle | 15 |
pewter frame | 26 | pewter switchplates | 15 |
pewter mug | 26 | pewter figure | 15 |
pewter picture frame | 25 | color pewter | 14 |
antique pewter | 25 | pewter mark | 14 |
pewter dragon | 25 | woodbury pewter | 13 |
heraldic pewter | 23 | pewter candle holder | 13 |
pewter plate | 22 | pewter lamp | 13 |
pewter jewelry | 22 | pewter flatware | 13 |
pewter wholesale charm | 22 | pewter bead | 13 |
pewter flask | 21 | pewter tankards | 13 |
baby pewter | 21 | clan english pewter | 13 |
english pewter | 13 | ||
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "pewter"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | lidhje kallaji me plumb, enë kallaji. (various references) | |
Arabic | البيوتر اشابة من القصدير والرصاص, أوان بيوترية. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | халба дадена като награда, купа (bowl, cup, heart, mow, plate, pot), калаен съд, пютър. (various references) | |
Czech | cínové nádobí, cínová konvice, cín (tin). (various references) | |
Danish | tintoej (pewterware), tinsager (pewterware). (various references) | |
Dutch | tinnen vaatwerk (pewterware). (various references) | |
Finnish | tina ja lyijyseos. (various references) | |
French | poterie d'étain (pewterware), étain. (various references) | |
German | Zinngeschirr (pewterware). (various references) | |
Greek | κράμα κασσίτερου, κασσίτεροσ (stannum, tin), δοχείο από κασσίτερο (pewterware). (various references) | |
Hebrew | תך ב"יל ועופרת. (various references) | |
Hungarian | ónedény (tin-pot), ónötvözet, cintárgy. (various references) | |
Italian | peltro, stoviglie di stagno (pewterware). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 半" (solder). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | は" (solder). (various references) | |
Manx | peedyr. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ewterpay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | prêmio em dinheiro, peltre, louça de estanho (pewterware), liga de estanho, dinheiro (bawbee, brass, cash, chink, currency, dibs, dough, ducat, gold, in cash, money, pelf, pence, penny, pocket, purse, shekel, shekels, shiner, siller, splosh, tin, wad, wherewithal), chumbo ou outro metal. (various references) | |
Romanian | vase cositorite, aliaj pe bazã de cositor, aliaj de cositor şi plumb (trifle). (various references) | |
Russian | сплав оловянный, сплав олова со свинцом. (various references) | |
Scottish | pleòdar, staoin (juniper, laziness, tin), feòdar. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | posuđe od kalaja, kalaj (tin). (various references) | |
Spanish | peltre, estaño (tin), alfarería de estaño (pewterware). (various references) | |
Swedish | tenn (tin). (various references) | |
Turkish | kalaylı (blanched, containing tin, stannous, tinned), kalaydan yapılmış, kalay ve kurşun alaşımı, kalay kap. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | сплав на олов'яній основі, олов'яний посуд. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | hợp kim thiếc đ" dùng bằng thiếc. (various references) | |
Welsh | piwter. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "pewter": pewterer, pewterers, pewters. (additional references) | |
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"Pewter" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: fewter, lewter, newter, peater, peeter, peewitted, Pelter, peltre, Penter, perter, petter, peuter, pewer, pewster, pewters, pewtyr, powte, pueter. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "pewter" (pronounced pyuw"ter) |
| 5 | p y uw" t er | computer, microcomputer, minicomputer, supercomputer. |
| 4 | -y uw" t er | commuter, cuter. |
| 3 | -uw" t er | cooter, hooter, looter, neuter, polluter, recruiter, rooter, scooter, shooter, Souter, suiter, suitor, tutor. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-p-r-t-w" | |
-1 letter: peter, rewet, twerp. | |
-2 letters: ewer, peer, pert, pree, rete, tree, twee, weep, weer, weet, wept, were, wert. | |
-3 letters: ere, ewe, pee, per, pet, pew, ree, rep, ret, tee, tew, wee, wet. | |
-4 letters: er, et, pe, re, we. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-p-r-t-w" | |
+1 letter: pewters. | |
+2 letters: pewterer. | |
+3 letters: deepwater, pewterers, typewrite, typewrote. | |
+4 letters: carpetweed, outpowered, presweeten, spleenwort, supersweet, typewriter, typewrites, wastepaper, waterpower, waterscape, wentletrap, wiretapped, wiretapper. | |
+5 letters: carpetweeds, crowstepped, empowerment, paperweight, presweetens, spleenworts, typewriters, typewritten, wastepapers, waterpowers, waterscapes, wentletraps, whippletree, wiretappers. | |
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