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cast-steel
[cast ppl. a. 8.]
A hard steel made from broken-up blistered steel melted in a crucible and run into ingot-moulds; crucible-steel. Also attrib.
1778P. Thicknesse Year's Journey (ed. 2) I. xvi. 149 An English cast steel razor. 1792Brit. Pat. 1869 2 The greatest part of the metal will be found to be steel, and sufficiently converted for making into cast steel. 1800Repertory of Arts XIV. 177 The general principles of my process or processes are the fusion of malleable iron or of iron ore in such manner and by such means as immediately to convert them into cast-steel. 1812,1858[see steel n.1 1 c]. 1824W. Irving Salmag. 203 His learned distinctions between wrought scissors and those of cast-steel. 1848W. H. Emory Notes Mil. Reconn. 132 The wooden plough, the harrow, and the cast-steel axe. 1868Jrnl. Chem. Soc. XXI. 281 Cast-steel containing less than 0·3 per cent. of carbon is no longer capable of being hardened. 1880Encycl. Brit. XIII. 356/2 Cast steel products. 1923Man. Seamanship (H.M.S.O.) II. 257 Cast Steel is employed [in ship-building] in several qualities. |