white metal

1. 1.

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

   Synonymsbearing metal

   Broaderalloy

Questions about white metal

What does white metal mean?

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

What is another word for white metal?

Close synonyms include bearing 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 white metal a common word?

white 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.