putty powder

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Noun[edit]

putty powder (countable and uncountable, plural putty powders)

  1. An oxide of tin, or of tin and lead in various proportions, used in polishing glass, metal, precious stones, etc.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 putty powder”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)