pewter

Any of numerous silver-gray alloys of tin with various amounts of antimony, copper, and sometimes lead, used widely for fine kitchen utensils and tableware.

Pewter articles considered as a group.

A material made of calcined tin, used in polishing marble.

An alloy of four parts of tin with one of lead.

A vessel made of pewter; a tankard; a beerpot.

Collectively, vessels made of pewter.

Money; prize-money.

A hard, tough, but easily fusible, alloy, originally consisting of tin with a little lead, but afterwards modified by the addition of copper, antimony, or bismuth.

Utensils or vessels made of pewter, as dishes, porringers, drinking vessels, tankards, pots.

An alloy of approximately 93–98% tin, 1–2% copper, and the balance of antimony.