[= med.L. album ferrum, F. fer-blanc tin-plate.] a. Tinned iron, tin-plate. b. Cast iron of a silvery color containing a large proportion of carbon in combination.

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1532.  Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot., VI. 155. vj mesouris or quhite irne for the hagbutis charge.

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1632, 1745, 1881.  [see IRON sb.1 2].

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1839.  Ure, Dict. Arts, 1252. The only alloy of iron interesting to the arts, is that with tin, in the formation of tin-plate, or white iron.

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  c.  attrib. † white-iron man, smith, a tinsmith.

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1731.  in Rec. Convent. Burghs Scot. (1885), V. 528. Spurriers, gunsmyths, whiteiron smyths.

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1765.  Watt, in Muirhead, Invent. Watt (1854), I. 13. My old white-iron man [footn., Anglicé, tin-man] is dead.

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1785.  Boswell, Hebrides, 19 Aug. James Hood, White Iron Smith.

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1814.  Scott, Wav., lxiii. Deacon Clank, the white iron smith.

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