Definitions for steels

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steels steel

Spelling: [steel]

IPA: /stil/

Steels is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 70 anagrams from letters in steels (eelsst).

Definitions for steels

noun

1. any of various modified forms of iron, artificially produced, having a carbon content less than that of pig iron and more than that of wrought iron, and having qualities of hardness, elasticity, and strength varying according to composition and heat treatment: generally categorized as having a high, medium, or low-carbon content.
2. a thing or things made of this metal.
3. a flat strip of this metal used for stiffening, especially in corsets; stay.
4. a bar of this metal that has one end formed to hold a bit for driving through rock.
5. steels, stocks or bonds of companies producing this metal.
6. a sword.
7. a rounded rod of ridged steel, fitted with a handle and used especially for sharpening knives.

adjective

1. pertaining to or made of steel.
2. like steel in color, hardness, or strength.

verb (used with object)

1. to fit with steel, as by pointing, edging, or overlaying.
2. to cause to resemble steel in some way.
3. to render insensible, inflexible, unyielding, determined, etc.:

Origin of steels

before 900; (noun) Middle English stele, Old English (north) stēle; cognate with Dutch staal, German Stahl, Old Norse stāl; (v.) Middle English stelen, Old English styled edged with steel, de

Examples for steels

But the steels had been back two days, and Morna could not wait another hour.

steels, Concordia, with doves on square and astronomical globe.

All are expectant She wavers again, and steels herself to resolution.

It steels the mind and sets the resolution as no other emotion can do.

steels may contain all the way from one tenth to one and a half per cent.

But when he smote on Trenchefer the steels rang sharp; the blow was turned.

The best of the steels had their elastic limits; there was none that did not finally snap.

It's kitchen-day, and I do my steels and brasses before breakfast.

Before you white people came with your flints and steels, we had it.

That's his idea, and he is busy on a model made out of the steels of his wife's stays.