steeling
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English[edit]
Verb[edit]
steeling
- present participle and gerund of steel
Noun[edit]
steeling (plural steelings)
- 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.