Meaning of steel | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An artificial metal produced from iron, harder and more elastic than elemental iron; used figuratively as a symbol of hardness
2. An artificial metal produced from iron, harder and more elastic than elemental iron; used figuratively as a symbol of hardness.
   countable, uncountable
3. Coldbath Fields Prison in London, closed in 1877.
   UK, obsolete, slang, transitive
4. A surname.
5. Bridewell Prison in London, England.
   UK, historical, obsolete, slang
6. Any item made of this metal, particularly including: Bladed or pointed weapons, as swords, javelins, daggers
7. Any item made of this metal, particularly including:
   countable, uncountable
8. Bladed or pointed weapons, as swords, javelins, daggers.
   countable, uncountable
9. Bladed or pointed weapons, as swords, javelins, daggers
10. A piece used for striking sparks from flint.
    countable, uncountable
11. A piece used for striking sparks from flint or ferrocerium
12. Armor.
    countable, uncountable
13. Armor
14. A honing steel, a tool used to sharpen or hone metal blades.
    countable, uncountable
15. Pieces used to strengthen, support, or expand an item of clothing.
    countable, uncountable
16. A flat iron.
    countable, dialectal, uncountable
17. A sewing needle; a knitting needle; a sharp metal stylus.
    countable, dialectal, uncountable
18. An engraving plate.
    countable, uncountable
19. Projectiles.
    countable, uncountable
20. A fringe of beads or decoration of this metal.
    countable, uncountable
21. A type of slide used while playing the steel guitar.
    countable, uncountable
22. Medicinal consumption of this metal; chalybeate medicine; (eventually) any iron or iron-treated water consumed as a medical treatment.
    obsolete, uncountable
23. The gray hue of this metal; steel-gray, or steel blue.
    uncountable
24. Extreme hardness or resilience.
    countable, figuratively, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“Ocearium stæli.”

“Accearium steeli.”

“Þe alle þine leomen wule to-draȝen. þeh þu weore stel al.”

“Employeng the steell of his swerd the most best wyse that in hym was possible.”

“Weman...with wordis cane rycht wele our-cum mene hard as stele.”

“The purest part thereof [of iron ore] which in Latine is called Nucleus ferri, i. the kernell or heart of the yron (and it is that which we call steele)”

“Shall yron breake the Northren yron, and the steele?”

“...Like a man of Steele.”

“The bars are exposed to two or three successive processes of cementation, and are hence said to be twice or thrice converted into steels.”

“Steel may be roughly defined as an alloy of iron and carbon containing up to 1.7% carbon, all of the carbon being in the combined condition. A second definition, distinguishing it from cast or wrought iron, is that it has been produced in the molten condition, and a third states that steel can be hardened by quenching from a suitably high temperature. There are...certain exceptions to all these definitions.”

“For the iron to be made into steel (defined as iron with a carefully controlled carbon content of 1.7 percent or less) the sulfur, the silicon, and the excess carbon must be removed.”

“Steel properties vary based on composition and processing. Different formulations and manufacturing methods produce steels with a spectrum of characteristics, including yield strength.”

“US Steel was once a symbol of American industrial power. It was the most valuable company in the world and, soon after its 1901 creation, became the first to be worth $1 billion. Its steel helped build America, from the skyscrapers dotting city landscapes to the cars speeding down highways, to the appliances inside millions of homes.”

“For heom ne may halter ne bridel Bringe from here wode wyse, Ne mon mid stele ne mid ire.”

“For braue Macbeth (well hee deſerues that Name) Diſdayning Fortune, with his brandiſht Steele, Which ſmoak'd with bloody execution (Like Valours Minion) caru'd out his paſſage.”

“But who wou'd dream that out of abundant Charity and Brotherly Love shou'd come Steel, Fire, Gibbets, Rods.”

“They have asked for the steel. They shall have it now; Out cutlasses and board!”

“While one man was beating off the swords, the waters stole up silently and took him. Contrariwise, another was struggling with the waves, when the steel came up and encompassed him. The flowing waters were befouled with the gory spray. Thus the Ruthenians were conquered...”

“Of ston mid stel in ðe tunder wel to brennen one ðis wunder.”

“The Cock falling with its wonted violence upon the Steel.”

“Þai gun hem boþe armi In iren and stiel þat tide.”

“In compleate steele.”

“She that has [chastity], is clad in compleat steel.”

Comus

“The steill to scherp the schawing jrne.”

“When he came to Nottingham, he entered that part of the market where butchers stood, and took up his inn in the best place he could find. Next, he opened his stall and spread his meat upon the bench, then, taking his cleaver and steel and clattering them together, he trolled aloud in merry tones...”

“I haue a ruffe is a quarter deep, measured by the yeard... You haue a pretty set too, how big is the steele you set with?”

“I suppose the bullet must have struck the steels in my corsets.”

“One of them having occasion to use a Steele, smoothing Iron, or some such kinde of Laundry Instrument.”

“The threaded steel...Flies swiftly.”

“A re-issue of the Examples of the Architecture of Venice. By John Ruskin... With the Text, and the 16 Plates (10 Steels and 6 Lithographs) as originally published.”

“The crews at the port batteries were pumping steel at the enemy.”

“A trailing skirt embroidered in what is termed fine steel.”

“A stronger physick is now necessary, perhaps a whole course of steel: A physick, God knowes, that this Kingdome hath been under five or six yeares.”

“Steel is not so good as Iron for Medicinal Operation.”

“The Doctor tells me I must go into a Course of Steel, tho I have not the Spleen.”

“I...am really only kept alive by steel.”

“Falkenhayn gave...to Jane a steel glacé silk dress.”

“It was a clear steel-blue day. The firmaments of air and sea were hardly separable in that all-pervading azure; only, the pensive air was transparently pure and soft, with a woman’s look, and the robust and man-like sea heaved with long, strong, lingering swells, as Samson’s chest in his sleep.”

“I was lugged before the beak, who gave me six doss in the steel. [...] six months in the Bastille (the old House of Corrections), Coldbath Fields.”

“He said he had been in the “steel” (Coldbath Fields Prison) eight times.”

“This time I got two moon for assaulting the reelers when canon. For this I went to the Steel (Bastile^([sic]) — Coldbath Fields Prison), having a new suit of clobber on me and about fifty blow in my brigh (pocket).”

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