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hot metal
noun
- metallic type and printing elements produced by a casting machine; foundry type.
hot metal
noun
- metallic type cast into shape in the molten state
- ( as modifier )
hot-metal printing
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Word History and Origins
Origin of hot metal1
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Example Sentences
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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