Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Steel containing as an alloying element a small percentage of silver.
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Examples
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A moment later, the cry of a train whistle pierced the air and the locomotive steamed past, a silver-steel centaur that puffed and bellowed as it stretched recentlessly into the future.
Soul Learner_Tobsha 2006
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Sigarni, her silver-steel blade dripping crimson, wheeled her grey stallion and led her men back down the pass.
The Hawk Eternal Gemmell, David 1995
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The shadows fled the far corner of the laboratory, the corner where stood the Portal with its platinum carvings of the five dragon heads and its huge silver-steel door that no key upon Krynn could unlock.
War of the Twins Weis, Margaret 1986
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The pens are now of a bright silver-steel color and perfectly smooth, but as they are required in various tints, they are colored and afterward varnished to prevent rust.
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It was of silver-steel which the elves call mithril, and with it went a belt of pearls and crystals.
The Hobbit Tolkien, J. R. R. 1938
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"Now, ladies and gentlemen, the first article I am going to offer for your inspection is a fine silver-steel blade knife with a mother-of-pearl handle, brass lined, round-joint tapped and riveted tip top and bottom a knife made under an act of Congress at the rate of thirty-six dollars per dozen there is a blade for every day in the week and a handle for your wife to play with on Sunday it will cut cast-iron steam steel wind or bone and will stick a hog frog toad or the devil and has a spring on it like a mule's hind leg and sells in the regular way for --"
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