Definitions
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- noun
Babbitt metal . - verb transitive To line with
Babbitt metal to reduce friction. - noun A
person who subscribescomplacently tomaterialistic middle-class ideals
Etymologies
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Examples
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Tin forms an important part of many alloys such as babbitt, Britannia metal, bronze, gun metal and bearing metals.
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By day you struggle with the German for "babbitt-lined bearing" (Weißmetallfutterlager, of course), by night you worry how you'll pay the bills.
Google is to start translating poetry Phil Daoust 2010
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The segments that partly envelop the cross-head pin and crank-pin, and are section lined in two directions, producing crossing section lines, or small squares, show that the brasses are lined with babbitt metal, which is represented by this kind of cross-hatching.
Mechanical Drawing Self-Taught Joshua Rose
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Innumerable proportions of metals are marketed under the name of babbitt.
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_Tin_ is the principal part of _babbitt_ and _solder_.
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But if you have no extra plug you must remove the first one and refill it with babbitt.
Rough and Tumble Engineering James H. Maggard
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A commonly used babbitt is composed of 89 per cent tin, 8 per cent antimony and 3 per cent of copper.
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The father of the officer, Lieut. Ross, was a babbitt manufacturer in Leicester; he had been a very few months in business when the war broke out.
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Roughly a third of the tin consumed within the United States goes into tin-plate, a third into solder and babbitt metal, and a third into miscellaneous uses.
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Next in importance is its use in the making of solder and of babbitt or bearing metal.
slumry commented on the word babbitt
Thanks, OneBlueSun, for indirectly reminding me of the word babbitry!
July 11, 2007
rolig commented on the word babbitt
See also babbittry.
December 10, 2007
whichbe commented on the word babbitt
Eponym: a business or professional man who conforms unthinkingly to prevailing middle-class standards. (from WordCraft)
May 20, 2008
reesetee commented on the word babbitt
Originally from the novel by Sinclair Lewis. :-)
May 21, 2008
hernesheir commented on the word babbitt
Babbitt, Babbitt metal, or bearing metal - names for a variety of alloys used for the bearing surface in machinery bearings. The metal resists galling. Not named after the Sinclair Lewis character and novel, but rather, after its inventor, one Isaac Babbitt of MA.
May 18, 2010
thtownse commented on the word babbitt
Just know that forming alloys used in bearing surfaces in machinery bearings can be babbitt forming.
May 18, 2010
hernesheir commented on the word babbitt
Babbit forming, not babbittry.
May 18, 2010