hot metal

noun

, Printing.

metallic type and printing elements produced by a casting machine; foundry type.

hot metal

1. metallic type cast into shape in the molten state
2. ( as modifier )
  hot-metal printing

First recorded in 1955–60

Woods were shredded, the earth trembled and the ground exploded in showers of stone and red-hot metal splinters.

She tattooed her wrist with the letter E (for Edouard) by pressing a piece of white-hot metal there.

Monstrous throats gasp for a draught of white-hot metal and take it at a gulp.

A piece of red-hot metal was lifted out and thrust into the vice; Hannam was striker and Bickerton holder.

Behind, and almost overhanging it, was a great krantz whose smooth ironstone wall glowed like a vast slab of red-hot metal.

This being lifted out of Paris and plunged into Longmeadow was the pouring of white hot metal into chill moulds.

Keezhaubikeday is hot metal, a hot stove, &c. Keezhaugummeday is hot water.

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