bearing metal

1. 1.

   an alloy (often of lead or tin base) used for bearings

   Synonymswhite metal

   Broaderalloy

Questions about bearing metal

What does bearing metal mean?

bearing metal means "an alloy (often of lead or tin base) used for bearings".

What is another word for bearing metal?

Close synonyms include white metal. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bearing metal a common word?

bearing metal is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.