How To Use blacklead In A Sentence
- My mom used to blacklead the stove - we lived in a council house which had a Yorkshire Range and she polished it with blacklead out of a tin.
- They went inside, and there was such a neat kitchen, with tiles as red as tiles could be; a little dresser, with all sorts of useful things; a nice clock ticking opposite the fire-place, and a grate as bright as blacklead could make it. Fanny, the Flower-Girl, or, Honesty Rewarded
- This process prevents entirely the circulation of blacklead in the air, which has heretofore been so objectionable in the process of electrotyping. Scientific American Supplement, No. 488, May 9, 1885
- It consists of a small wooden cylinder, about three quarters of an inch in diameter, and 3 in. long; at one end of the cylinder is a cavity which holds the combustible, which is confined only by pasteboard or membrane, so that, when ignited, it will blow straight into the heart of the principal charge; the two wires of the electric circuit, entering at the other end of the cylinder, terminate upon the little wooden disc which forms the bottom of this cavity, so that the end of one wire is about a quarter of an inch from the other; the electric circuit is completed by drawing a dash with a blacklead-pencil across the tiny space of the wooden surface connecting the two ends of wire; and the fusee is then charged. Experiments with the American Torpedo-Shells at Chatham
- She came to the door in her sacking apron, a blacklead-brush in her hand, and a black smudge on her nose. Lady Chatterley's Lover
- For there was, as it follows afterward, Grecian hyssop: fucous hyssop, perhaps of the colour of blacklead: Roman hyssop, and wild hyssop. From the Talmud and Hebraica
- When they are required, the bars, cheeks, and back of the grate will need blackleading in the usual manner.
- Windows were cleaned, grates were blackleaded, furniture polished and the front doorstep and flags were whitened.
- A film of copper is deposited on the blacklead surface of the mould; and when this shell is sufficiently thick, it is taken from the bath, the wax removed, the shell trimmed, the back tinned, straightened, backed with an alloy of type-metal, then shaved to a thickness, and mounted on a block to make it type-high. Scientific American Supplement, No. 488, May 9, 1885
- If the surface upon which it fell was first covered with blacklead, a circular spot of lead will be found on the ivory ball. Aether and Gravitation