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Steel :: Steel (n.) A weapon, as a sword, dagger, etc..

Tilt :: Tilt (v. t.) To hammer or forge with a tilt hammer; as, to tilt steel in order to render it more ductile..

Bloom :: Bloom (n.) A large bar of steel formed directly from an ingot by hammering or rolling, being a preliminary shape for further working..

Axe :: Axe (n.) A tool or instrument of steel, or of iron with a steel edge or blade, for felling trees, chopping and splitting wood, hewing timber, etc. It is wielded by a wooden helve or handle, so fixed in a socket or eye as to be in the same plane with the blade. The broadax, or carpenter's ax, is an ax for hewing timber, made heavier than the chopping ax, and with a broader and thinner blade and a shorter handle..

Kitcat :: Kitcat (a.) Designating a club in London, to which Addison and Steele belonged; -- so called from Christopher Cat, a pastry cook, who served the club with mutton pies..

Plating :: Plating (n.) A coating or defensive armor of metal (usually steel) plates.

Steeling :: Steeled (imp. & p. p.) of Stee.

Steelhead :: Steelhead (n.) A North Pacific salmon (Salmo Gairdneri) found from Northern California to Siberia; -- called also hardhead, and preesil..

Trones :: Trones (n.) A steelyard.

Porter :: Porter (n.) A bar of iron or steel at the end of which a forging is made; esp., a long, large bar, to the end of which a heavy forging is attached, and by means of which the forging is lifted and handled in hammering and heating; -- called also porter bar..

Chondrometer :: Chondrometer (n.) A steelyard for weighting grain.

Magnet :: Magnet (n.) A bar or mass of steel or iron to which the peculiar properties of the loadstone have been imparted; -- called, in distinction from the loadstone, an artificial magnet..

Sickle :: Sickle (n.) A reaping instrument consisting of a steel blade curved into the form of a hook, and having a handle fitted on a tang. The sickle has one side of the blade notched, so as always to sharpen with a serrated edge. Cf. Reaping hook, under Reap..

Tape :: Tape (n.) A tapeline; also, a metallic ribbon so marked as to serve as a tapeline; as, a steel tape..

Burn :: Burn (v. t.) To injure by fire or heat; to change destructively some property or properties of, by undue exposure to fire or heat; to scorch; to scald; to blister; to singe; to char; to sear; as, to burn steel in forging; to burn one's face in the sun; the sun burns the grass..

Springy :: Springy (superl.) Resembling, having the qualities of, or pertaining to, a spring; elastic; as, springy steel; a springy step..

Steelbow Goods :: Steel (n.) To cover, as an electrotype plate, with a thin layer of iron by electrolysis. The iron thus deposited is very hard, like steel..

Manganite :: Manganite (n.) One of the oxides of manganese; -- called also gray manganese ore. It occurs in brilliant steel-gray or iron-black crystals, also massive..

Caseharden :: Caseharden (v. t.) To subject to a process which converts the surface of iron into steel.

Ironclad :: Ironclad (n.) A naval vessel having the parts above water covered and protected by iron or steel usually in large plates closely joined and made sufficiently thick and strong to resist heavy shot.

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