bell metal : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: bell metal	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for bell metal
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
bell metal n bronze with 3 or 4 parts copper to 1 part tin; used in making bells
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Bell metal \Bell" met`al\ A hard alloy or bronze, consisting usually of about three parts of copper to one of tin; -- used for making bells. {Bell metal ore}, a sulphide of tin, copper, and iron; the mineral stannite.