The Collaborative International Dictionary
Blacklead \Black`lead"\, black-lead \black-lead\, v. t. To coat or to polish with black lead (graphite).
Usage examples of "black-lead".
The mixture of ore and culm is either transferred to a black-lead crucible before the latter is put into the furnace, or, as some prefer, it is carefully swept into a crucible which has been imbedded in the fire.
The carriages are also to be carefully examined, the trunnion-holes and arms of the axletrees cleaned, and saturated with boiled linseed oil, the cracks filled with putty, and rubbed smooth, and the trunnion-holes black-leaded.
In the early part of the seventeenth century black-lead pencils are distinctly described by several writers.
Among the various German industries the manufacture of black-lead pencils occupied but a very modest place.
The manufacture of black-lead pencils, however, occupied a position on the very lowest rung of the industrial ladder.
Its appearance is a little unfamiliar of course, but all the muddle of dust-collecting hangings and witless ornament that cover the earthly bedroom, the valances, the curtains to check the draught from the ill-fitting wood windows, the worthless irrelevant pictures, usually a little askew, the dusty carpets, and all the paraphernalia about the dirty, black-leaded fireplace are gone.