Gunmetal

Quick meaning: Gunmetal is a noun meaning An alloy of 88% copper, 10% tin and 2% zinc, originally used for making guns.

Meaning

An alloy of 88% copper, 10% tin and 2% zinc, originally used for making guns.

More Meanings

1. (also attributive) A dark grey or bluish-grey colour; gunmetal grey.
2. (historical) A type of bronze used for making cannons.

Example Sentences

It is three tiers high inside the prison and everything is the color of gunmetal. Everything is dark and cold, except for those patches of light, where authority stands.

Of his addictive behavior, he [Robert Downey Jr.] told a judge, "It's like I have a shotgun in my mouth, and I've got my finger on the trigger, and I like the taste of the gunmetal."

Braſs, Copper, Latten, Bell-Metal, Pan-Metal, Gun-Metal, or Shruff-Metal, whether clean or mixed, carried beyond Sea, forfeits double the Value thereof; (Tin and Lead only excepted) the Informer half, […]

Gunmetals are alloys of copper, tin and zinc, formerly used for casting cannon. With lead additions they become suitable as bearing materials and are called leaded gunmetals (the US term is leaded red brass); they are quite often misnamed bronzes.

Word Forms

• gunmetals
• gun metal
• gun-metal

Synonyms for gunmetal

Depending on context, synonyms include gunmetal gray, gunmetal grey.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include bush-metal, sterrometal, bellmetal, bronzine, bronze, metal.

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