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Steeler :: Steelbow goods () Those goods on a farm, such as corn, cattle, implements husbandry, etc., which may not be carried off by a removing tenant, as being the property of the landlord..

Bessemer Steel :: Bessemer steel () Steel made directly from cast iron, by burning out a portion of the carbon and other impurities that the latter contains, through the agency of a blast of air which is forced through the molten metal; -- so called from Sir Henry Bessemer, an English engineer, the inventor of the process..

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

Rib :: Rib (n.) One of the timbers, or bars of iron or steel, that branch outward and upward from the keel, to support the skin or planking, and give shape and strength to the vessel..

Spring :: Spring (v. i.) An elastic body of any kind, as steel, India rubber, tough wood, or compressed air, used for various mechanical purposes, as receiving and imparting power, diminishing concussion, regulating motion, measuring weight or other force..

Unsteel :: Unsteel (v. t.) To disarm; to soften.

Leucopyrite :: Leucopyrite (n.) A mineral of a color between white and steel-gray, with a metallic luster, and consisting chiefly of arsenic and iron..

Zinkenite :: Zinkenite (n.) A steel-gray metallic mineral, a sulphide of antimony and lead..

Plane :: Plane (a.) A tool for smoothing boards or other surfaces of wood, for forming moldings, etc. It consists of a smooth-soled stock, usually of wood, from the under side or face of which projects slightly the steel cutting edge of a chisel, called the iron, which inclines backward, with an apperture in front for the escape of shavings; as, the jack plane; the smoothing plane; the molding plane, etc..

Ruthenium :: Ruthenium (n.) A rare element of the light platinum group, found associated with platinum ores, and isolated as a hard, brittle steel-gray metal which is very infusible. Symbol Ru. Atomic weight 103.5. Specific gravity 12.26. See Platinum metals, under Platinum..

Jamesonite :: "Jamesonite (n.) A steel-gray mineral, of metallic luster, commonly fibrous massive. It is a sulphide of antimony and lead, with a little iron..

Pernot Furnace :: Pernot furnace () A reverberatory furnace with a circular revolving hearth, -- used in making steel..

Steem :: Steelyard (n.) A form of balance in which the body to be weighed is suspended from the shorter arm of a lever, which turns on a fulcrum, and a counterpoise is caused to slide upon the longer arm to produce equilibrium, its place upon this arm (which is notched or graduated) indicating the weight; a Roman balance; -- very commonly used also in the plural form, steelyards..

Frizel :: Frizel (a.) A movable furrowed piece of steel struck by the flint, to throw sparks into the pan, in an early form of flintlock..

Converter :: Converter (n.) A retort, used in the Bessemer process, in which molten cast iron is decarburized and converted into steel by a blast of air forced through the liquid metal..

Corkscrew :: Corkscrew (n.) An instrument with a screw or a steel spiral for drawing corks from bottles.

Pipe :: Pipe (v. i.) To become hollow in the process of solodifying; -- said of an ingot, as of steel..

Mill :: Mill (n.) To roll into bars, as steel..

Semisteel :: Semisteel (n.) Puddled steel.

Temper :: Temper (v. t.) To bring to a proper degree of hardness; as, to temper iron or steel..

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