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▪ I. steeling, vbl. n.|ˈstiːlɪŋ|
[f. steel v. + -ing1.]
†1. The action of stiffening (a bodice, etc.) with steel. Obs.
1601Dent Plain Man's Pathw. (1617) 43 It was neuer a good world, since starching and steeling, buskes and whale⁓bones..came to bee in vse.
2. The giving a steel edge or point to iron, etc.
a1819Rees Cycl., Steeling, in Cutlery, the laying on a piece of steel upon a larger mass of iron, to make that part which is to receive the edge harder than the rest.
3. Conversion into steel.
1860Repert. Patent Invent. Oct. 317 These processes offer considerable advantages over those ordinarily employed for effecting the ‘steeling’ or the conversion of objects made of wrought or of cast iron into steel. Ibid. 318 The conversion into steel or the ‘steeling’ of iron or of cast iron. 1977Sci. Amer. Oct. 125/1 If bloomery iron is treated in a certain way, it can be transformed into an alloy that is for most purposes far superior to bronze. That treatment is steeling, and its initial discovery was probably accidental.
4. In Engraving, the process of covering a metal plate with steel to render it more durable.
1871Hamerton Etcher's Handbk. 41 Since the invention of steeling (protecting the copper by means of an infinitesimally thin coat of steel applied by galvanism) a dry point will yield larger editions than an etching would formerly. 1887Athenæum 24 Sept. 412/2 It will be retorted that, in these days of steeling, stamped proofs of etchings, line or mezzotint engravings, are in many cases..little better than ordinary prints.
5. The steel part of a machine.
1869Rankine Machine & Hand-tools Pl. K 3, The bottom steeling on which iron is placed when it is being cut [by the shears]. Ibid. Pl. K 11, The steelings [of a guillotine plate shears] are 6 feet 6 inches long.
6. attrib. steeling-box, ? a box-iron (cf. steel v. 7).
a1680Glanvill Sadducismus ii. (1681) 152 That she hurt Dorothy the Wife of George Vining, by giving an Iron slate to put into her steeling Box.
▪ II. steeling, ppl. a.|ˈstiːlɪŋ|
[-ing2.]
That steels, in quot. hardening, stiffening.
1849Stovel Canne's Necess. Introd. p. x, He had already sustained the steeling influence of ‘seventeen years’ spent in banishment.
▪ III. steeling
obs. var stilling, stand for a cask. |