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nickelled

vb. (en-past of: nickel)

WordNet
nickel

  1. v. plate with nickel; "nickel the plate"

  2. [also: nickelling, nickelled]

nickel

  1. n. a hard malleable ductile silvery metallic element that is resistant to corrosion; used in alloys; occurs in pentlandite and smaltite and garnierite and millerite [syn: Ni, atomic number 28]

  2. a United States coin worth one twentieth of a dollar

  3. five dollars worth of a drug; "a nickel bag of drugs"; "a nickel deck of heroin" [syn: nickel note]

  4. [also: nickelling, nickelled]

nickelled

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Usage examples of "nickelled".

Then drew it out, so slowly, so slowly, the bone handle, the nickelled chambers and fluted barrel seemed never to stop coming, like something pulled on an endless train.

There remained enough sense in me to give him all he wanted when he jumped not once, but twenty times, before the up-stream flight that ran my line out to the last half-dozen turns, and I saw the nickelled reel-bar glitter under the thinning green coils.