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How to pronounce steel
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What does steel mean?
nounAn artificial metal produced from iron, harder and more elastic than elemental iron; used figuratively as a symbol of hardness.
“Þe alle þine leomen wule to-draȝen. þeh þu weore stel al.”
Bladed or pointed weapons, as swords, javelins, daggers.
“They have asked for the steel. They shall have it now; Out cutlasses and board!”
A piece used for striking sparks from flint or ferrocerium.
“The Cock falling with its wonted violence upon the Steel.”
adjMade of steel.
“Strained in stel ger on steedes of might.”
Similar to steel in color, strength, or the like; steely.
“Prison my heart in thy steele bosomes warde.”
Of or belonging to the manufacture or trade in steel.
“From their new dungeons at Chantilly, Aristocrats may hear the rustle of our new steel furnace there.”
verbTo treat, furnish with, or transform into steel.
“When God...draws aside his curtain, and shows his arsenal and his armory, full of arrows steeled with wrath.”
To back with steel.
“Nay, a Crystall glasse will not show a man his face, except it be steeled, except it be darkned on the backside.”
To treat a liquid with steel for medicinal purposes.
“She drunk her drink steeled, with which she was cured.”
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