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Lead ore   /lɛd ɔr/   Listen
Lead ore

noun
1.
Ore containing lead.



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"Lead ore" Quotes from Famous Books



... foundry sand. In Germany some of the harder beds have yielded building stones, which were much used in the middle ages in the construction of cathedrals and castles in southern Germany and on the Rhine. In the northern Eifel region, at Mechernich and elsewhere, this formation contains lead ore in the form of spots and patches (Knotenerz) in the sandstone; some of the lead ore ...
— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 - "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" • Various

... says Shaw, "take themselves to be completely dressed, till they have tinged their hair and edges of their eyelids with the powder of lead ore. Now, as this operation is performed by dipping first into the powder a small wooden bodkin of the thickness of a quill, and then drawing it afterwards through the eyelids over the ball of the eye, we shall have a lively image of what ...
— The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore • Thomas Moore et al



Words linked to "Lead ore" :   massicot, white lead ore, massicotite, green lead ore, ore



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