How To Use blacklead In A Sentence
- It is made of cast iron and would have been blackleaded every week.
- Blacklead brushes and polish were used to blacklead the kitchen range every morning after the fire had been cleaned out.
- The kitchen was spotlessly clean, the grate shining with blacklead. The Carved Cupboard
- Works can be rendered in blacklead or metallic pencil or in colour using various mediums or in monotone or duotone or in black and white.
- The blacklead pencils have HB lead that is extremely tough and able to withstand a great deal of maltreatment!
- The grate will need no other cleaning, but will merely require dusting every day, and occasionally brushing with a dry blacklead brush.
- The process of electrotyping is as follows: The form is locked up very tightly, and is then coated with a surface of graphite, commonly known as blacklead, but it is a misnomer. Scientific American Supplement, No. 488, May 9, 1885
- He brought out his order book and a blacklead pencil. My Neighbors Stories of the Welsh People
- A film of copper is deposited on the blacklead surface of the mould; and when this shell is sufficiently thick, it is taken from the bath, the wax removed, the shell trimmed, the back tinned, straightened, backed with an alloy of type-metal, then shaved to a thickness, and mounted on a block to make it type-high. Scientific American Supplement, No. 488, May 9, 1885
- The fireplace dates from about 1840 and needed regular blackleading and polishing.
