steel
The English word “steel” has 33 meanings listed here.
- An artificial metal produced from iron, harder and more elastic than elemental iron; used figuratively as a symbol of hardness.
- Any item made of this metal, particularly including:
- Bladed or pointed weapons, as swords, javelins, daggers.
- A piece used for striking sparks from flint or ferrocerium.
- Armor.
- A honing steel, a tool used to sharpen or hone metal blades.
- Pieces used to strengthen, support, or expand an item of clothing.
- A flat iron.
- A sewing needle; a knitting needle; a sharp metal stylus.
- An engraving plate.
- Projectiles.
- A fringe of beads or decoration of this metal.
- A type of slide used while playing the steel guitar.
- Medicinal consumption of this metal; chalybeate medicine; (eventually) any iron or iron-treated water consumed as a medical treatment.
- The gray hue of this metal; steel-gray, or steel blue.
- Extreme hardness or resilience.
- Made of steel.
- Similar to steel in color, strength, or the like; steely.
- Of or belonging to the manufacture or trade in steel.
- Containing steel.
- Engraved on steel.
- To treat, furnish with, or transform into steel.
- To edge, cover, or point with steel.
- To back with steel.
- To treat a liquid with steel for medicinal purposes.
- To electroplate an item (particularly an engraving plate) with a layer of iron.
- To sharpen with a honing steel.
- To steelify; to turn iron into steel.
- To cause to resemble steel.
- To harden or strengthen; to nerve or make obdurate; to fortify against.
- To give (something) the appearance of steel.
- To press with a flat iron.
- Coldbath Fields Prison in London, closed in 1877.
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