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black lead

black lead noun: the metal lead.

Noun

black lead (countable and uncountable, plural black leads)

  1. (historical) The metal lead.
    Antonyms:
    white lead
  2. Graphite, especially as used in pencils.
  3. (countable) A graphite pencil.
  4. (historical) A type of polish made from graphite, used for kitchen cleaning and blackening grates.
    • She always washed without soap: there were no hearth-stones nor black-lead dust for the stoves; nor a cake of whitening for the kitchen-grate […].1828, JT Smith, Nollekens and His Times, Century Hutchinson, published 1986, page 271

black lead meaning in Tamil

black lead in Tamil

கரியஈயம்

Antonyms of black lead

Forms of black lead

pluralblack leads
alternative formblacklead
alternative formblack-lead

Origin of black lead

In the sense of lead, calque of Latin plumbum nigrum (“lead”, literally “black lead”).

Questions about black lead

What does black lead mean?
Black lead means the metal lead.
What is black lead in Tamil?
Black lead in Tamil is கரியஈயம். See Black lead meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is black lead?
Black lead is a noun.
What is the plural of black lead?
The plural of black lead is black leads.

Words near black lead in the dictionary

  1. black landings
  2. black lands
  3. black latten
  4. Black Law
  5. Black Laws
  6. black lead
  7. black leads
  8. black legend
  9. black legends
  10. Black Legion
  11. black lemur

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Adapted from Wiktionary: black lead (page history and authors); black lead (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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