ppl. a. [f. SOLDER v. + -ED1.]
1. Joined by means of solder. Also with up.
1599. B. Jonson, Cynthia’s Rev., II. ii. Hee will not depart with the waight of a sodred groat.
1725. Fam. Dict., s.v. Reservatory, Solder’d Pipes are no other than Sheets of Lead, which they bend and solder together at the Junctures.
1834–47. J. S. Macaulay, Field Fortif. (1851), 210. In a well-soldered tin or iron case.
1843. Holtzapffel, Turning, I. 433. All soldered works should be kept under motionless restraint for a period.
1887. Encycl. Brit., XXII. 240/2. Secured in closely fitting soldered-up tinned-iron boxes.
2. fig. and transf. Patched up; closely united.
1623. Fletcher, Bloody Brother, II. i. A soder’d friendship Piec’d out with promises.
1667. Marvell, Poems (Grosart), I. 218. He felt His alt’ring form and soder’d limbs to melt.
1859. Darwin, Orig. Spec., xii. (1860), 392. The shrivelled wings under the soldered elytra of many insular beetles.
1887. G. Meredith, Ballads & Poems, 19. A rough ill-soldered scar … on his cheek-bone.
