Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An artificially prepared oxid of tin (SnO2), sometimes mixed with oxid of lead (PbO), used for polishing glass and other substances.
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Examples
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The four Dillons, of Ballyhaunis, gave out to their grooms a large assortment of pipe-clay and putty-powder.
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When properly smoothed rub it over with pumice-stone and water, then with bath-brick and water, finally polishing off, when you have a nice fine surface, with putty-powder and oil, or rotten-stone and oil, with plenty of hard work and hand-polishing towards the last.
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Sea shells may be polished by being plunged for a little time in dilute nitric acid, then rubbed down with sand paper or fine emery and oil, finished with "Water-Ayr" or "Snake-stone," and finally polished with putty-powder and oil.
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The next process, called polishing, was effected upon a wooden wheel, fed with pumice or rotten-stone and water, and the final touch was given by another wooden wheel, and a preparation of tin and lead called putty-powder.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864 Various
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Ballyhaunis, gave out to their grooms a large assortment of pipe-clay and putty-powder.
The Kellys and the O'Kellys Anthony Trollope 1848
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