A steel suitable for shears, scythes, and other cutting instruments, prepared from fagots of blistered steel by repeated heating, rolling, and tilting, to increase its malleability and fineness of texture.

Crude steel formed from wrought iron by cementation.

Steel which contains only a small proportion of carbon, and cannot be hardened greatly by sudden cooling.

A metal made from bog iron ore in a forge, with charcoal for fuel.

A steel instrument for whetting a currier's knife.

Any of a variety of carbon and alloy steels that are particularly suited for making tools.

An alloy of steel with a very small proportion of silver. / Common tool steel supplied as a centerless ground round bar (with tolerances similar to that of drill rod).

A kind of steel having a lower proportion of carbon than hardenable steels, rendering it softer and more malleable and ductile.

(obsolete) Wine, usually sherry, in which steel filings were placed for a considerable time; once used as a medicine.

(medicine, obsolete) An alcoholic solution of the chloride of iron.