red-lead putty

1. 1.

   a cement resembling putty; made by mixing white and red lead in boiled linseed oil; used as luting on pipe fittings

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Questions about red-lead putty

What does red-lead putty mean?

red-lead putty means "a cement resembling putty; made by mixing white and red lead in boiled linseed oil; used as luting on pipe fittings".

Is red-lead putty a common word?

red-lead putty 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.