tool-steel

Spinning at 80 revolutions per minute, the $8 million drill chewed through the ice with four hardened tool-steel cutters, boring ever deeper into ice that bottoms out a mile below sea level.

Mining for Cold, Hard Facts 2010

Replaceable tool-steel jaws and cutters handle common duties easily, although cutting superbraids is a struggle.

Field Test: Fishing Pliers 2007

It is a delight to see Stephenson's gears grind; they are cunningly die-cut, burnished to a fine luster, laid into an eye-pleasing Engine For Moving Scenery Through History of nigh-Piranesian design, the whole crafted of delicately-watered historick tool-steel.

Kenneth Hite's Journal princeofcairo 2004

Jack went back to the workshop, built a fire on the hand forge and forged a pointed and rather broad blade, four inches long, on the end of a foot of quarter-inch round tool-steel.

The Fuzzy Papers Piper, H. Beam 1962

All the tests and experiments of a modern government arsenal, with all the technical knowledge of modern times, do not produce such tool-steel.

Steam, Steel and Electricity James W. Steele

It is certainly true that by the simple processes of semi-barbarism the finest tool-steel has been manufactured, perhaps from the days of Tubal Cain downward.

Steam, Steel and Electricity James W. Steele

Presently his friend Derec came to see him in the tool-steel cell in which he had been placed.

The Pirates of Ersatz Murray Leinster 1935

Barrett would be glad to do business with him, once the gunsmith saw that hard tool-steel he had dug out of that place down the river.

The Return H. Beam Piper 1934

Not that Barrett wouldn't be more than glad to do business with him, once he saw that hard tool-steel he'd dug out of that place down the river.

The Return H. Beam Piper 1934

The importance of the chemical laboratory to a tool-steel plant cannot be over-estimated.

The Working of Steel Annealing, Heat Treating and Hardening of Carbon and Alloy Steel 1916