"Babbitt's metal" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "See babbitt metal.",
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  "hyphenation": [
    "Bab‧bitt's"
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1878 April, William D. Marks, “Crank Pins and Journals”, in Journal of the Franklin Institute, page 234:",
          "text": "The supposed superiority of brass or Babbitt's metal lined boxes over iron boxes, in positions very liable to heating, lies in their greater softness and conductivity for heat.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1897, Aluminum World, page 29:",
          "text": "In 1839 Isaac Babbitt, a goldsmith of Boston, Mass., discovered the alloy known as Babbitt's metal which is used the world over in bearings of machinery.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1899, “Importance of Good Bearing Metals”, in The Foundry, page 130:",
          "text": "So-called Babbitt's metals made principally of lead, and weighing six ounces per cubic inch, are dear at any price, when compared with the tin Babbitt's metals which weight but 4¼ ounces per cubic inch, and never heat or cut journals.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "form_of": [
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          "word": "babbitt metal"
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      "glosses": [
        "Rare form of babbitt metal."
      ],
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  "etymology_text": "See babbitt metal.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Babbitt's metals",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "Bab‧bitt's"
  ],
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  "pos": "noun",
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        {
          "ref": "1878 April, William D. Marks, “Crank Pins and Journals”, in Journal of the Franklin Institute, page 234:",
          "text": "The supposed superiority of brass or Babbitt's metal lined boxes over iron boxes, in positions very liable to heating, lies in their greater softness and conductivity for heat.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1897, Aluminum World, page 29:",
          "text": "In 1839 Isaac Babbitt, a goldsmith of Boston, Mass., discovered the alloy known as Babbitt's metal which is used the world over in bearings of machinery.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1899, “Importance of Good Bearing Metals”, in The Foundry, page 130:",
          "text": "So-called Babbitt's metals made principally of lead, and weighing six ounces per cubic inch, are dear at any price, when compared with the tin Babbitt's metals which weight but 4¼ ounces per cubic inch, and never heat or cut journals.",
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