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Pinchbeck — could be;People *Christopher Pinchbeck, English watchmaker who developed the alloy *Daniel Pinchbeck, American author;Placenames *Pinchbeck, Lincolnshire, England;Other *Pinchbeck (alloy), an alloy made of copper and zinc … Wikipedia
Pinchbeck — Pinch beck, a. Made of pinchbeck; sham; cheap; spurious; unreal. A pinchbeck throne. J. A. Symonds. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
pinchbeck — [pinch′bek΄] n. [after C. Pinchbeck, Eng jeweler who invented it ( c. 1725)] 1. an alloy of copper and zinc used to imitate gold in cheap jewelry 2. anything cheap or imitation adj. 1. made of pinchbeck 2. cheap, imitation, sham, etc … English World dictionary
Pinchbeck — (spr. Pintschbeck), geschmeidige, goldfarbene Legirung aus 2 Theilen Kupfer u. 1 Theil Messing, nach ihrem Erfinder, dem englischen Mechaniker Pinchbeck benannt … Pierer's Universal-Lexikon
Pinchbeck — Pinch beck, n. [Said to be from the name of the inventor; cf. It. prencisbecco.] An alloy of copper and zinc, resembling gold; a yellow metal, composed of about three ounces of zinc to a pound of copper. It is much used as an imitation of gold in … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Pinchbeck — Pinchbeck, s. unter Messing, S. 524 … Lexikon der gesamten Technik
pinchbeck — adj Counterfeit, spurious, bogus, fake, sham, pseudo, phony … New Dictionary of Synonyms
Pinchbeck — A London watchmaker who took his name from Pinchbeck, Lincolnshire, invented an alloy of five parts copper and one of zinc that resembled gold. The inventor was Christopher Pinchbeck (1670 1732), whose shop was on Fleet Street. He was an… … Dictionary of eponyms
pinchbeck — /pinch bek/, n. 1. an alloy of copper and zinc, used in imitation of gold. 2. something sham, spurious, or counterfeit. adj. 3. made of pinchbeck. 4. sham, spurious, or counterfeit: pinchbeck heroism. [1725 35; named after Christopher Pinchbeck… … Universalium
pinchbeck — 1. noun An alloy of copper and zinc once used as imitation gold for cheap jewelry. 2. adjective a) Made of pinchbeck. Where, in these pinchbeck days, can we hope to find the old agricultural virtue in all its purity? … Wiktionary
