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Sow-metal. World English Historical Dictionary

Sow-metal. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1919, rev. 2025. Sow-metal [f. SOW sb.1 6. Cf. SOW-IRON.] Cast iron in sows or large ingots as it comes from the blasting- or smelting-furnace.

1 1674.  Phil. Trans., XVII. 696. They have of late made it much better than heretofore, by melting the Sow-metal over again.

2 1746.  Brit. Mag., 96. The Nucleus Ferri, Sow-metal or liquid Iron.

3 1761.  Ann. Reg., I. 73/2. His new-invented method of making malleable iron from pig or sow metal.

4 1839.  Penny Cycl., XIII. 33/2. The names of sow-metal and pig-metal, which … signify … the blocks of iron which are formed in the large main channels, and … the smaller blocks which are formed in smaller side channels.

5   attrib.  1676.  in Jrnl. Friends’ Hist. Soc., V. 14. The officers took one mare, and his stithy, and sowmettell pot.

6 1888.  R. Leader, in Addy, Sheffield Gloss., s.v., The very commonest knives made of it are called sow-metal gudgeons.

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