pinchbeck
1Pinchbeck — could be;People *Christopher Pinchbeck, English watchmaker who developed the alloy *Daniel Pinchbeck, American author;Placenames *Pinchbeck, Lincolnshire, England;Other *Pinchbeck (alloy), an alloy made of copper and zinc …
2Pinchbeck — Pinch beck, a. Made of pinchbeck; sham; cheap; spurious; unreal. A pinchbeck throne. J. A. Symonds. [1913 Webster] …
3pinchbeck — [pinch′bek΄] n. [after C. Pinchbeck, Eng jeweler who invented it ( c. 1725)] 1. an alloy of copper and zinc used to imitate gold in cheap jewelry 2. anything cheap or imitation adj. 1. made of pinchbeck 2. cheap, imitation, sham, etc …
4Pinchbeck — (spr. Pintschbeck), geschmeidige, goldfarbene Legirung aus 2 Theilen Kupfer u. 1 Theil Messing, nach ihrem Erfinder, dem englischen Mechaniker Pinchbeck benannt …
5Pinchbeck — Pinch beck, n. [Said to be from the name of the inventor; cf. It. prencisbecco.] An alloy of copper and zinc, resembling gold; a yellow metal, composed of about three ounces of zinc to a pound of copper. It is much used as an imitation of gold in …
6Pinchbeck — Pinchbeck, s. unter Messing, S. 524 …
7pinchbeck — index spurious Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …
8pinchbeck — adj Counterfeit, spurious, bogus, fake, sham, pseudo, phony …
9Pinchbeck — A London watchmaker who took his name from Pinchbeck, Lincolnshire, invented an alloy of five parts copper and one of zinc that resembled gold. The inventor was Christopher Pinchbeck (1670 1732), whose shop was on Fleet Street. He was an… …
10pinchbeck — /pinch bek/, n. 1. an alloy of copper and zinc, used in imitation of gold. 2. something sham, spurious, or counterfeit. adj. 3. made of pinchbeck. 4. sham, spurious, or counterfeit: pinchbeck heroism. [1725 35; named after Christopher Pinchbeck… …
