latten , także: lattin

Historically the term latten was used for such alloys.

The term "latten" has also been used, rarely, to refer to lead alloys.

I'll make you dance Jack Latten for that.

Sir John and master mine, I combat challenge of this latten bilbo.

Metalworkers commonly formed latten in thin sheets and used it to make church utensils.

But he kne W Latten out again at any other sudden, untoward noise.

They wore helmets with aventail and latten plate armour over padded shirts.

Later brass was made with zinc metal from Champion's smelting process and is not generally referred to as latten.

Vestry there; powder and 2 latten (pewter) ladles for culverins.

Copper alloys, of which brass is one, were often called latten in earlier times and 'lantern' could be a corruption of this old word.

The metal, called latten, an alloy of copper, lead and zinc, was cheaper than stone and easier to engrave.

Gilded Latten Bones (2010)

The rivets, or nails, attaching the plates to the fabric were often decorated, being gilt, or of latten, and sometimes embossed with a design.

The term is applied to a variety of brasses and the distinction is largely historical, both terms having a common antecedent in the term latten.

At the beginning of the subsequent novel Gilded Latten Bones, Tinnie and Garrett have been living together some time without marrying.

By the time of Gilded Latten Bones he has become General of the renamed Civil Guard.

One such student, Alicia Latten, 18, now attending Indiana University's School of Music, is considering a career as a school music teacher.

Mr. Pinelli and his wife, Luella (who also teaches in the district), taught, supported and later befriended Ms. Latten.

Keith Latten, of East Orange, N.J., is a devoted fan who has missed few Fridays at Berlin.

They worked in a variety of materials, including wrought iron, latten, leather, cloth and even bone to substitute rigid materials for maille as the knight's harness progressed.

Gilded Latten Bones is the thirteenth novel in Glen Cook's ongoing Garrett P.I. series.

Medieval spoons for domestic use were commonly made of cow horn or wood, but brass, pewter, and latten spoons appear to have been common in about the 15th century.

A body may weel say, 'O Lord, thoo hasna latten me see what I oucht to du, sae I'll du naething!'

The inventories of Church goods in England made the time of the Reformation disclose a very large number of objects in latten which were probably made in the country.

Block and Relway are supported in their efforts by Prince Rupert, bringing further legitimacy to the unit, which is renamed the Civil Guard by the time of Gilded Latten Bones.