[f. prec.] trans. To color or rub with black-lead; to trace or draw in black-lead. Hence Black-leaded ppl. a., Black-leading vbl. sb.
1839. C. Brontë, Lett., 21 Dec., in Life. I am much happier black-leading the stoves.
1861. J. Pycroft, Agony Point (1862), 154. The same hands that had black-leaded the grate.
c. 1865. G. Gore, in Circ. Sc., I. 220/1. Zinc deposits spread over blackleaded surfaces. Ibid., 234/1. The mould may … be prepared … by blackleading.
