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Noun
pig lead (uncountable)
- unrefined lead, cast in blocks called pigs
- 1902, John Masefield, Cargoes
- Dirty British coaster with a salt-caked smoke-stack,
- Butting through the Channel in the mad March days,
- With a cargo of Tyne coal,
- Road-rails, pig-lead,
- Firewood, iron-ware, and cheap tin trays.
