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- English Word Steel Definition An instrument of steel (usually a round rod) for sharpening knives.
- English Word Steel Definition A piece of steel for striking sparks from flint.
- English Word Steel Definition Fig.: Anything of extreme hardness; that which is characterized by sternness or rigor.
- English Word Steel Definition A chalybeate medicine.
- English Word Steel Definition To overlay, point, or edge with steel; as, to steel a razor; to steel an ax.
- English Word Steel Definition To make hard or strong; hence, to make insensible or obdurate.
- English Word Steel Definition Fig.: To cause to resemble steel, as in smoothness, polish, or other qualities.
- English Word Steel Definition To cover, as an electrotype plate, with a thin layer of iron by electrolysis. The iron thus deposited is very hard, like steel.
- English Word Steelbow goods Definition Those goods on a farm, such as corn, cattle, implements husbandry, etc., which may not be carried off by a removing tenant, as being the property of the landlord.
- English Word Steeled Definition of Steel
- English Word Steeler Definition One who points, edges, or covers with steel.
- English Word Steeler Definition Same as Stealer.
- English Word Steelhead Definition A North Pacific salmon (Salmo Gairdneri) found from Northern California to Siberia; -- called also hardhead, and preesil.
- English Word Steelhead Definition The ruddy duck.
- English Word Steeliness Definition The quality of being steely.
- English Word Steeling Definition of Steel
- English Word Steeling Definition The process of pointing, edging, or overlaying with steel; specifically, acierage. See Steel, v.
- English Word Steely Definition Made of steel; consisting of steel.
- English Word Steely Definition Resembling steel; hard; firm; having the color of steel.
- English Word Steelyard Definition A form of balance in which the body to be weighed is suspended from the shorter arm of a lever, which turns on a fulcrum, and a counterpoise is caused to slide upon the longer arm to produce equilibrium, its place upon this arm (which is notched or graduated) indicating the weight; a Roman balance; -- very commonly used also in the plural form, steelyards.