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   Met·al

   /ˈmed(ə)l/

   

   noun

   • 1. a solid material that is typically hard, shiny, malleable, fusible, and ductile, with good electrical and thermal conductivity (e.g., iron, gold, silver, copper, and aluminum, and alloys such as brass and steel): "being a metal, aluminum readily conducts heat"
   • ▪ gold and silver (as tinctures in blazoning).
   • 2. broken stone for use in making roads: "the work also involves dealing with rock aggregates for potential use as suitable road metal"
   • 3. molten glass before it is blown or cast.
   • 4. heavy metal or similar rock music: "crunching power-trio metal"

   verb

   • 1. make or mend (a road) with road metal: British "several miles of the old road had been metaled with crushed stone"

   Word Origin Middle English: from Old French metal or Latin metallum, from Greek metallon ‘mine, quarry, or metal’.

   Scrabble Points: 7

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