Steely: alternatives and connections

To subject to great heat, and then cool slowly, as glass, cast iron, steel, or other metal, for the purpose of rendering it less britt…

An iron block, usually with a steel face, upon which metals are hammered and shaped.

A crossbow, consisting of a steel bow set in a shaft of wood, furnished with a string and a trigger, and a mechanical device for bendi…

Steel or iron covering, whether of ships or forts, protecting them from the fire of artillery.

Covered with defensive plates of metal, as a ship of war; steel-clad.

One of the elements, a solid substance resembling a metal in its physical properties, but in its chemical relations ranking with the 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, e…

A double sulphide of antimony and iron, of a dark steel-gray color.

Steel made directly from cast iron, by burning out a portion of the carbon and other impurities that the latter contains, through the…

Any elevation made by the separation of the film or skin, as on plants; or by the swelling of the substance at the surface, as on stee…

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

A large and troublesome species of blowfly (Musca vomitoria). Its body is steel blue.

The act of rendering blue; as, the bluing of steel.

An implement of steel, bone, ivory, etc., with a sharp point, for making holes by piercing; a /tiletto; an eyeleteer.

Whalebone; hence, a piece of whalebone or of steel for a corset.

A mineral of a steel-gray to black color and metallic luster, occurring crystallized, often in twin crystals shaped like cogwheels (wh…

A strong iron or steel plug screwed into the breech of a musket or other firearm, to close the bottom of the bore.

A tool of steel, generally tapering, and of a polygonal form, with from four to eight cutting edges, for smoothing or enlarging holes…