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# pewter

«pewter» in Mova's school dictionary: **A soft grey metal, a mix of tin with lead or other…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (no plural)

### meaning for a pupil

A soft grey metal, a mix of tin with lead or other metals, used for plates, cups and toy soldiers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pewter/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in stories a toy soldier is made of pewter and so cannot bend

### examples

- The pewter soldier stood on the shelf. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pewter/#x1)
- The cup was made of pewter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pewter/#x2)
- The old plate was dull grey pewter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pewter/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths; counting pewter soldiers is only counting.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «pewter» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pewter/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.