Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Iron, or metal made by puddling or some other non-fusion process, which contains enough carbon to possess the hardening and tempering quality and some other properties of steel.
- noun Iron which is a mechanical mixture of iron and steel, as respects its properties, by reason of incomplete manufacture into either.
- noun Steel-faced iron.
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Examples
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But my brother and I remember him -- and his indomitable, steel-iron fierceness -- as if we were kids again on the farm only yesterday.
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But my brother and I remember him -- and his indomitable, steel-iron fierceness -- as if we were kids again on the farm only yesterday.
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The Lincolnshire line has shortened the distance to Hull, whence the steel-iron comes, and fat cattle; the Manchester line carries away the bars converted into cutlery, and all the plated ware and hardware, by
Rides on Railways Samuel Sidney 1848
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All the steel-iron used in England is imported into
Rides on Railways Samuel Sidney 1848
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Whenever we have the good fortune to intersect India with railroads, steel-iron will be among the number of our enlarged imports.
Rides on Railways Samuel Sidney 1848
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