pig lead en · NOUN
Meanings
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(uncountable) unrefined lead, cast in blocks called pigs
Dirty British coaster with a salt-caked smoke-stack, Butting through the Channel in the mad March days, With a cargo of Tyne coal, Road-rails, pig-lead, Firewood, iron-ware, and cheap tin trays.
1902, John Masefield, Cargoes: