Word Meanings - STEELER - Book Publishers vocabulary database
One who points, edges, or covers with steel.
Related words: (words related to STEELER)
- STEELING
The process of pointing, edging, or overlaying with steel; specifically, acierage. See Steel, v. - STEELHEAD
A North Pacific salmon found from Northern California to Siberia; -- called also hardhead, and preesil. - STEELINESS
The quality of being steely. - POINTSMAN
A man who has charge of railroad points or switches. - STEELY
1. Made of steel; consisting of steel. "The steely point of Clifford's lance." Shak. Around his shop the steely sparkles flew. Gay. 2. Resembling steel; hard; firm; having the color of steel. "His hair was steely gray." The Century. She would unarm - STEELYARD
A form of balance in which the body to be weighed is suspended from the shorter arm of a lever, which turns on a fulcrum, and a counterpoise is caused to slide upon the longer arm to produce equilibrium, its place upon this arm indicating - STEELER
One who points, edges, or covers with steel. - COVERSED SINE
The versed sine of the complement of an arc or angle. See Illust. of Functions. - COVERSIDE
A region of country having covers; a hunting country. - STEEL
A variety of iron intermediate in composition and properties between wrought iron and cast iron (containing between one half of one per cent and one and a half per cent of carbon), and consisting of an alloy of iron with an iron carbide. Steel, - STEELBOW GOODS
Those goods on a farm, such as corn, cattle, implements husbandry, etc., which may not be carried off by a removing tenant, as being the property of the landlord. - EDGESHOT
Having an edge planed, -- said of a board. Knight. - CARBON STEEL
Steel deriving its qualities from carbon chiefly, without the presence of other alloying elements; --opposed to alloy steel. - UNSTEEL
To disarm; to soften. Richardson. - LOW STEEL
See LOW - NICKEL STEEL
A kind of cast steel containing nickel, which greatly increases its strength. It is used for armor plate, bicycle tubing, propeller shafts, etc. - NATURAL STEEL
Steel made by the direct refining of cast iron in a finery, or, as wootz, by a direct process from the ore. - BESSEMER STEEL
Steel made directly from cast iron, by burning out a portion of the carbon and other impurities that the latter contains, through the agency of a blast of air which is forced through the molten metal; -- so called from Sir Henry Bessemer, an English - DAMASCUS STEEL
See DAMASK - SOFT STEEL
Steel low in carbon; mild steel; ingot iron. - NATIVE STEEL
A sort of steel which has been found where a burning coal seam had reduced and carbonized adjacent iron ore. - SEMISTEEL
Puddled steel. - INGOT STEEL
Steel cast in ingots from the Bessemer converter or open-hearth furnace. - WELD STEEL
A compound of iron, such as puddled steel, made without complete fusion. - INDIA STEEL
See WOOTZ - ALLOY STEEL
Any steel containing a notable quantity of some other metal alloyed with the iron, usually chromium, nickel, manganese, tungsten, or vanadium.