lead lining

Lead lining is used to hold together pieces of glass.

The font has a Norman bowl with lead lining set on a 19th-century base.

In 1950 the church's flat roofs had to be repaired once more after the lead lining was stolen.

The octagonal bowl font still has an original lead lining.

Suddenly the lid came away, bringing with it a lead lining, such as is usual in tea-chests.

It was heavy, due to its lead lining and the two enormous air tanks attached to its back.

The lead lining, which has been retained in modern boxes, was once meant to ensure that the box sank when thrown overboard in the event of capture.

About thirty years after the destruction of Krypton a large meteor shower pierces the lead lining of Argo City, dooming its inhabitants to a slow death.

It had the same peace as the fish cuddy in his father's boat when the wind howled on deck, because the lead lining of the magazine with the dampened fire screen hanging down deadened the noise.

In England, it has long been law that a coffin for interment above ground should be sealed; this was traditionally implemented as a wooden outer coffin around a lead lining, around a third inner shell.

The effect of the law and this loophole is to ban lead solder and lead linings in plumbing systems and coolers, while brass, which contains as much as 8 percent lead, is permitted.

The investigating board subsequently conjectured that corrosion of the lead lining of the battery tank had permitted seepage of sea water into the battery compartment and thereby caused the commanding officer to lose control on a submerged run.

The great captain's cabin was converted to house the potted breadfruit plants, and glazed windows were fitted to the upper deck, while a lead lining was installed on the floor to catch and re-use run-off water used to feed the plants.

Abraham van Linge's work can be seen most prominently in the chapels of University College, Oxford and Lincoln College, Oxford, and at Christ Church, Oxford in England, where the lead lining is particularly noticeable.