gilding metal
English
Noun
gilding metal (usually uncountable, plural gilding metals)
- A tough kind of sheet brass from which cartridge shells are made.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for gilding metal in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)