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Mullion vs Bullion - What's the difference?

mullion | bullion |

As nouns the difference between mullion and bullion

is that mullion is a vertical bar between the panes of glass or casements of a window or the panels of a screen while bullion is a bulk quantity of precious metal, usually gold or silver, assessed by weight and typically cast as ingots.

mullion

English

(wikipedia mullion)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A vertical bar between the panes of glass or casements of a window or the panels of a screen.

    • Derived terms

    * mullioned

    Anagrams

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    bullion

    English

    Noun

  • A bulk quantity of precious metal, usually gold or silver, assessed by weight and typically cast as ingots.
  • (obsolete) base or uncurrent coin
  • * Sylvester
    • And those which eld's strict doom did disallow, / And damn for bullion , go for current now.
  • (obsolete) showy metallic ornament, as of gold, silver, or copper, on bridles, saddles, etc.
  • * Skelton
    • The clasps and bullions were worth a thousand pound.
  • (obsolete) A heavy twisted fringe, made of fine gold or silver wire and used for epaulets; also, any heavy twisted fringe whose cords are prominent.
    • (Webster 1913)