steeling

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Verb

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steeling

  1. present participle and gerund of steel

Noun

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steeling (plural steelings)

  1. A strengthening with, or as if with, steel.
    • 1951, The Australasian Engineer, page 163:
      The joints of the toggle mechanism are equipped with steelings of special hardened steel, and are of ample dimensions to withstand the great pressure exerted in embossing or coining.
    • 1968, Francis Stewart Leland Lyons, John Dillon: a biography, page 19:
      Alas against such terrors as this all steelings of the heart are absolutely useless.

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