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Meaning
Adj
●
Colourless,
drab
, dull.
Noun
●
An
alloy
coating
made of
lead and
tin
(or, more
recently
,
zinc
and
tin
), often with some
antimony
, used to
cover
iron
or steel.
●
Synonym of
terneplate
(“thin
iron
or
steel
sheeting
coated
with this
alloy”)
●
Obsolete
spelling
of
tern
(“any of various
seabirds
of the
subfamily
Sternidae (of the family Laridae) that are
similar
to
gulls
but are
smaller
and have a
forked
tail”)
Sourced from
Wiktionary
Synonyms
Terneplate
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