Steel is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for STEEL in dictionary:

VERB:
• to cover with a tough iron alloy
• mentally prepare (oneself) to do or face something difficult
• get ready for something difficult or unpleasant
• cover, plate, or edge with steel
• prepare (oneself) for something unpleasant
NOUN:
• a hard, strong grey or bluish-grey alloy of iron with carbon and usually other elements, used as a structural and fabricating material
• used as a symbol or embodiment of strength and firmness
• a rod of roughened steel on which knives are sharpened.
• hard malleable alloy of iron and carbon
• A variety of iron intermediate in composition and properties between wrought iron and cast iron (containing between one half of one per cent and one and a half per cent of carbon), and consisting of an alloy of iron with an iron carbide. Steel, unlike wrought iron, can be tempered, and retains magnetism. Its malleability decreases, and fusibility increases, with an increase in carbon.
• An instrument or implement made of steel
• A weapon, as a sword, dagger, etc.
• An instrument of steel (usually a round rod) for sharpening knives.
• A piece of steel for striking sparks from flint.
• Fig.: Anything of extreme hardness; that which is characterized by sternness or rigor.
• A chalybeate medicine.
• To overlay, point, or edge with steel; as, to steel a razor; to steel an ax.
• To make hard or strong; hence, to make insensible or obdurate.
• Fig.: To cause to resemble steel, as in smoothness, polish, or other qualities.
• To cover, as an electrotype plate, with a thin layer of iron by electrolysis. The iron thus deposited is very hard, like steel.
• an alloy of iron with small amounts of carbon; widely used in construction; mechanical properties can be varied over a wide range
• a cutting or thrusting weapon that has a long metal blade and a hilt with a hand guard
• knife sharpener consisting of a ridged steel rod
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to cover with steel (a tough iron alloy)

Words related to STEEL

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How to use STEEL in a sentence

• The work of the farm was accomplished by patent devices in wood and steel.
• At midnight, in the forest shades, Bozzaris ranged his Suliote band, True as the steel of their tried blades, Heroes in heart and hand.
• The defenders fired their rifles and pistols, if they had time, and then closed in with cold steel.
• A chemist, hundreds of years ago, finds out how to temper steel.
• Those who escaped the flames either fell by Scottish steel, or yielded themselves prisoners.
• Cross standards of perforated steel sheets and plates.
• If I appeal, They hale me up before a stern Committee, Fellows with brazen faces, hearts of steel, And destitute of manners as of pity.
• The light steel boxes made in England for travellers in India and Africa would prove of value in South American exploration.
• He caused four blades of steel to be fashioned, with point and edge sharper than the keenest razor.
• The ship was consequently fitted with three of the steel booms on the port side.
• From the middle of this there rose a steel rod or spine, with a steel collar which encircled my throat and fastened behind.
• His eyes were steel grey, and matched his hair, and he had a habit of looking straight at you when he spoke.
• On this he poured a few grains of powder, added a few blades of dried grass, and then set to work with his flint and steel.
• The upper half of the handle is steel, also, the hammer and spike.
• Did I not tell you that she had a heart of steel, even the same as that of her great brother.

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