| 单词 | damask steel |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdamask steel damask steel n. (see 4). damask steel a. Steel manufactured at Damascus; also steel or a combination of iron and steel exhibiting a similar variegated surface: more fully damask steel. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > steel > [noun] > steel with variegated surface damask1621 meteor steel1827 meteoric steel1831 1621 Knolles's Gen. Hist. Turkes (ed. 3) 1297 Two kniues of damaske, with hafts of iasper. 1844 Mechanics' Mag. 40 342 All steel which exhibits a surface figured with dark lines, is called damask. 1874 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Damask-steel, a laminated metal of pure iron and steel, of peculiar quality, produced by careful heating, laborious forging, doubling, and twisting. 1881 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. May 567 The curious product called damask-steel possesses both edge and elasticity, and all the great Eastern swords owe to it their celebrity. 1881 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. May 568 He made some swords which would bend till the point touched the hilt, and which would also cut through an iron bar..the same two faculties have never been conjoined in any other steel than damask. < as lemmas |
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