steel
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
From Old English *stēle
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steel (countable and uncountable; plural steels)
- (uncountable, countable) A metal alloy of mostly iron plus carbon, harder than pure iron but malleable when hot.
- (countable) A tool used to sharpen or hone knives.
- (countable) A sword.
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metal alloy
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tool used to sharpen or hone knives
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to steel (third-person singular simple present steels, present participle steeling, simple past and past participle steeled)
- To harden.
- The harsh fall weather steeled them against the colder winter.
- 2009 January 22, “The Celebration, and the Work Ahead”[1], New York Times:
- Often muscular and severe, the speech diagnosed the nation’s problems with a cold eye, swept away objections to decisive action, and steeled the American people for the measures that will be necessary, all the while providing a positive vision of a remade America that stands firmly on American values and traditions.
[edit] Dutch
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- IPA: /stel/
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steel (Plural: stelen, diminutive: steeltje)
- handle (of a broom, a pan)
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steel
- The first-person singular present tense of stelen.
- The imperative of stelen.

