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An artificial metal produced from iron, harder and more elastic than elemental iron; used figuratively as a symbol of hardness.
{{quote-text|en|year=c. 725|title=Corpus Gloss.|year_published=1431
{{quote-text|en|year=c. 825|title=Epinal Gloss.|section=49
(circa), Laȝamon, ''Brut'', 12916:
- Þe alle þine leomen wule to-draȝen. þeh þu weore stel al.
{{quote-text|en|year=c. 1473|translator=William Caxton|author=Raoul Le Fèvre|title=The Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye|section=I
(circa), ''St. Mary Magdalen'', 408 in 1896, W. M. Metcalfe, ''Legends Saints Sc. Dial.'', I 267:
{{quote-text|en|year=1601|translator=P. Holland|author=Pliny|title=Hist. World|section=II xxxiv xiv 514
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(RQ:Shakespeare Antony and Cleopatra)
{{quote-text|en|year=1839|author=A. Ure|title=Dict. Arts|year_published=1172
{{quote-text|en|year=1946|title=Thorpe's Dictionary of Applied Chemistry|edition=4th|section=VII 47 1
{{quote-journal|en|year=1976|month=Jul|journal=Scientific American|section=68 2
{{quote-text|en|year=c. 1250|title=The Owl & the Nightengale|year_published=1030
(RQ:Shakespeare Macbeth)
{{quote-text|en|year=1712|author=Lord Shaftesbury|title=Characteristicks|section=III 115
{{quote-text|en|year=1892|author=Rudyard Kipling|title=Barrack-room Ballads|section=139
{{quote-text|en|year=1905|translator=Oliver Elton|author=Saxo Grammaticus|title=Danish History/Book II|The Nine Books of the Danish History of Saxo Grammaticus|section=II
{{quote-text|en|year=c. 1220|title=Bestiary|section=535
{{quote-text|en|year=1660|author=Robert Boyle|title=New Experiments Physico-mechanicall|section=XIV 89
{{quote-text|en|year=c. 1330|title=Sir Tristrem|section=L 3324
(RQ:Shakespeare Hamlet)
(RQ:Milton Comus)
1541 in 1844, J. Stuart, ''Extracts of the Council Register of Aberdeen'', I 176:
- The steill to scherp the schawing jrne.
(RQ:Pyle Robin Hood)
Pieces used to strengthen, support, or expand an item of clothing.
{{quote-text|en|year=1608|author=G. Markham; et al|title=Dumbe Knight|section=I
{{quote-journal|en|date=Feb 22 1904|journal=Daily Chron|section=5 4
A iron.
{{quote-text|en|year=1638|author=J. Taylor|title=Bull, Beare, & Horse|section=C5
{{quote-text|en|year=1785|author=William Cowper|title=Task|section=IV 165
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{{quote-journal|en|date=Jun 11 1887|journal=Athenæum|section=779 1
{{quote-text|en|date=Jun 1 1898|title=Westminster Gazette|section=5 1
A fringe of beads or decoration of this metal.
{{quote-journal|en|date=Jan 26 1899|journal=Daily News|section=6 3
Medicinal consumption of this metal; chalybeate medicine; (''eventually'') any iron or iron-treated water consumed as a medical treatment.
{{quote-text|en|year=1649|author=H. Hammond|title=Christians Obligations|section=X 253
{{quote-book|en|year=1704|author=J. Harris|title=Lexicon Technicum|volume=L
{{quote-text|en|date=Sept 18 1712|publisher=Jonathan Swift|title=Journal to Stella|section=II 558
{{quote-text|en|year=1866|author=Princess Alice|title=Mem.|section=158
1851 Dec 28, E. Ruskin, letter in 1965, M. Lutyens, ''Effie in Venice'', II 236:
- Falkenhayn gave...to Jane a steel glacé silk dress.
(RQ:Melville Moby-Dick)
Extreme hardness or resilience.
Made of steel.
mid-14th century, ''Alisaunder'', 416:
- Strained in stel ger on steedes of might.
(RQ:Shakespeare Othello)
(RQ:Scott Anne)
{{quote-text|en|year=1976|author=J. Wheeler-Bennett|title=Friends, Enemies, & Sovereigns|section=V, 156
{{quote-text|en|year=c. 1560|translator=T. Phaer|author=Vergil|title=Nyne Fyrst Books of the Eneidos|section=X
(RQ:Shakespeare Sonnets)
Of or belonging to the manufacture or trade in steel.
(RQ:Pliny Holland Historie of the World)
(RQ:Carlyle French Revolution)
{{quote-journal|en|date=Jan 24 1976|journal=National Observer|section=1, 1
Containing steel.
{{quote-text|en|year=1652|author=J. French|title=York-shire Spaw|section=X, 92
{{quote-text|en|year=1675|author=G. Harvey|title=Dis. of London|section=XXIV, 264
{{quote-text|en|date=Feb 17 1713|publisher=Jonathan Swift|title=Journal to Stella|section=II, 622
Engraved on steel.
1880, (w), letter:
- The best picture I have had yet is the steel frontis-piece to my new book.
{{quote-text|en|year=c. 1240|chapter=Sawles Warde|title=The Cotton Homilies|section=253
(RQ:Shakespeare Richard 3)
{{quote-text|en|year=1651|author=Bishop Jeremy Taylor|title=XXVIII Sermons Preacht at Golden Grove, Being for the Summer Half-year|section=XIX 248
{{quote-text|en|year=1831|author=John Holland|title=A Treatise on the Progressive Improvement and Present State of the Manufactures in Metal|section=I 220
To harden or strengthen; to nerve or make obdurate; to fortify against.
{{quote-text|en|year=1581|translator=A. Hall|author=Homer|title=10 Bks. Iliades|section=VI 110
(RQ:Shakespeare Venus and Adonis)
1796, F. Burney, ''Camilla'', II iv vi 370:
- Steel yourself, then, firmly to withstand attacks from the cruel and unfeeling.
1882, F. W. Farrar, ''Early Days Christianity'', II 380:
- The rich experience of a long life steeled in the victorious struggle with every unchristian element.
To back with steel.
{{quote-text|en|year=c. 1630|author=John Donne|title=Sermons|section=VI 289
{{quote-text|en|year=1657|translator=J. Cooke|author=J. Hall|title=Cures|section=117
{{quote-text|en|year=1746|title=Exmoor Scolding|edition=3rd|section=II 14
To cause to resemble steel in appearance.
{{quote-text|en|year=1807|author=William Wordsworth|title=Sonn. to Liberty|section=II v
{{quote-text|en|year=1853|title=Jrnl. Franklin Inst.|section=CXXV 303
{{quote-journal|en|year=1977|month=Oct|journal=Scientific American|section=127 1
To electroplate an item, particularly an engraving plate, with a layer of iron.
{{quote-text|en|year=1880|author=P. G. Hamerton|title=Etching & Etchers|edition=3rd|section=342
To sharpen with a honing steel.
Fields Prison|Coldbath Fields Prison in London, closed in 1877.
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{{quote-text|en|year=1866|author=George Augustus Sala; Edmund Hodgson Yates|title=Temple Bar|volume=16|page=507
{{quote-text|en|year=1879|title=Macmillan's Magazine|volume=40|page=502
to steal
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