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steel
  1. (uncountable) An artificial metal produced from iron, harder and more elastic than elemental iron; used figuratively as a symbol of hardness.
  2. (countable) Any item made of this metal, particularly including:
    1. Bladed or pointed weapons, as swords, javelins, daggers.
    2. A piece used for striking sparks from flint.
    3. Armor.
    4. A honing steel, a tool used to sharpen or hone metal blades.
    5. (sewing) Pieces used to strengthen, support, or expand an item of clothing.
    6. (dialectal) A flat iron.
    7. (sewing, dialectal) A sewing needle; a knitting needle; a sharp metal stylus.
    8. (printing) An engraving plate:
    9. Projectiles.
    10. (sewing) A fringe of beads or decoration of this metal.
    11. (music) A type of slide used while playing the steel guitar.
  3. (medicine) Medicinal consumption of this metal; chalybeate medicine; (eventually) any iron or iron-treated water consumed as a medical treatment.
  4. (countable) Varieties of this metal.
  5. (uncountable, colors) The gray hue of this metal; steel-gray.
  6. Synonyms:
  7. Examples:
    1. “The attacker's knife cut through the air, and finally, Gerris managed to draw his steel.”
steelie
  1. (US) A zinc-coated steel version of the one-cent coin, produced during World War II because of copper shortages.
  2. A steel ball bearing or marble.
  3. Examples:
    1. “Obstacles include marble munchers, acid pools, an evil steelie marble, and more.”
      “I miss the first few takes but soon am connected to my first steelie.”
      “Makes a number of accessories in Boulder, including the recently acquired Steelie iPad mount.”
steelworker
  1. A person who manufactures or shapes steel.
  2. (uncommon) A person employed to build steel structures, an ironworker.
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “Bill, like many of the porters at the hospital, is a former steelworker.”
      “Am I under the delusion that when we lose 10,000 steelworker jobs, that necessarily means 10,000 fewer people working?”
      “Mr Lambert, a former steelworker, loathes the Tories, blaming them for the loss of Yorkshire's industries.”
steeler
  1. One who points, edges, or covers with steel.
  2. (shipbuilding) Alternative form of stealer
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “Some of the fans claim to have had their cars keyed or received verbal abuse for having Steeler adornments on their vehicles.”
      “Knowing almost nothing of football, he had the random foresight to examine the steeler legend's brain.”
      “Probably fuckstrated, counting on her young stud there to lay some steeler pipe, clean the cobwebs out of Little Miss Fuzzy.”
steelmaker
  1. A person who works with steel.
  2. A company that produces steel.
  3. Examples:
    1. “It was he who maneuvered a captain of industry, steelmaker Francis Mer, rather than a government mandarin into the finance minister's job.”
      “The October merger created the world's second-largest steelmaker behind India's ArcelorMittal.”
      “Qualitech Steel Corporation, headquartered in Pittsboro, Indiana, is a special bar quality steelmaker and iron carbide producer.”
steelworking
steeliness
  1. toughness, hardness or durability resembling (or likened to) that of steel.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “There are sweet, racy cherry notes, some flashes of coffee and steeliness in the mid palate.”
      “Her quiet disposition hid a steeliness that enabled her to continue her often ground-breaking work for forty or so years.”
      “Two or three years ago we might've fallen away, but this team has a bit of steeliness in it.”
steelification
  1. The process of becoming steel, or an instance of this.
steelworks
  1. A place where steel is manufactured and/or shaped.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Its first blast furnace was built in 1953, to complement other Lanarkshire steelworks.”
      “Zhang created a steelworks at Wuhan, textile mills, and factories producing cement, glass, paper, cotton yarn and cloth, and leather goods.”
      “Does anyone have any idea what steel dressers and steel moulders did in a steelworks?”
steelmaking
  1. The manufacture of steel
  2. Examples:
    1. “Unlike machinery used in textile mills, steelmaking machinery had few spinning belts that could pull workers into drive shafts.”
      “As it happened, Workington's adherence to acid steelmaking sealed the fate of the ore dock in the next few years.”
      “Gangue remains in the spongelike product, known as direct-reduced iron, or DRI, and must be removed in a subsequent steelmaking process.”
steelwork
  1. All the steel components of a structure
  2. Examples:
    1. “The Company specialises in the architectural metalwork and structural steelwork aspects of the construction industry.”
      “The wreckage is at its cleanest in spring and early summer, before the kelp gets a grip on the exposed steelwork.”
      “Mechanics have reinforced the car's chassis with extra steelwork and have beefed up the suspension to take extra load.”
steelware
  1. Articles made from steel.
steels
steelworkers
steelmakers
  1. plural of steelmaker
steelwares
  1. plural of steelware
steelers
  1. plural of steeler
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Bishop, who pitched for the Steinbach Steelers at the 1977 Fastball Nationals in Hull, Quebec, is the iron man of Canadian softball.”
      “I have put together the most absurdly yinzer gallery of Pirates and Steelers jerseys from last week.”
      “Two came in the form of special-teams meltdowns by Steelers, as a blocked field goal and a punt return both ended in Patriots touchdowns.”
steelies
  1. plural of steelie
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