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Steel

noun

An alloy of iron with small amounts of carbon; widely used in construction; mechanical properties can be varied over a wide range.

A cutting or thrusting weapon that has a long metal blade and a hilt with a hand guard. Synonyms: blade, brand, sword.

Knife sharpener consisting of a ridged steel rod.

verb

(past & past part. steeled; pres. part. steeling)

Get ready for something difficult or unpleasant. Synonym: nerve.

Cover, plate, or edge with steel.

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"Steel" Quotes from Famous Books

... lines looked as though they had been cut to twice their usual depth; the mouth appeared to have fallen, the corners pressing downward; one might have thought that tears had scalded away the lustre and dimmed the vision of the dark eyes that yesterday flashed with such steel-like brilliancy. The soft, white locks, that were usually arranged with so much skill, hung partially uncurled, and scarcely smoothed about her face, adding to the desolation ...

— Fairy Fingers - A Novel • Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie

... warmth of the few coffee-shops and public-houses that were open for such customers; the hard, dry, frosty rime with which the air was charged (the wind had already beaten it into every crevice), and which lashed my face like a steel whip. ...

— The Holly-Tree • Charles Dickens

... before his house-book, with his steel-pen in his hand, and making crosses here and notes ...

— My Novel, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton

... thrust in, lower down and driven deeper; then, as the knife was for the second time withdrawn, and my flesh sucked at the steel,—the pain of it sending a shudder through me,—the instinct of preservation overcame the sweet lust to strangle Vilmorin. I let him go and, staggering to my feet, I turned to face those murderers who struck a ...

— The Suitors of Yvonne • Raphael Sabatini

... they were entertaining. In great number was the pretty frailty, whose wings are compact of transparencies and purple blotches. In this full, fierce light the purple is black and the transparencies all steel-like glitter. They came across in shoals. There was neither beginning nor end. All the sky glittered with winged mosaics. Then came the great green and gold and black creature, accompanied sometimes by his less gaily decorated mate, ponderous of flight; and, anon, that ...

— The Confessions of a Beachcomber • E J Banfield

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