bell metal

1. 1.

   bronze with 3 or 4 parts copper to 1 part tin; used in making bells

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Questions about bell metal

What does bell metal mean?

bell metal means "bronze with 3 or 4 parts copper to 1 part tin; used in making bells".

Is bell metal a common word?

bell 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.