steelingn.
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the world > matter > constitution of matter > hardness > types of hardness > [noun] > stiffness or rigidity > becoming or making stiff > stiffening with steel
steeling1601
1601 A. Dent Plaine Mans Path-way to Heauen 48 It was neuer good world since starching and steeling, buskes, and whale-bones..came to be in vse.
2. The giving a steel edge or point to iron, etc.
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society > occupation and work > industry > working with specific materials > working with metal > [noun] > other metalworking processes
limation1617
matting1688
sheeting1776
blooming1812
steeling1816
ungraining1839
tarnishing1858
ironing1868
shimming1872
beating1875
siliconizing1880
shearing1881
inoxidizing1883
rustproofing1892
picking1895
rifting1903
Bayer process1910
autofrettage1919
prefinishing1935
panel beating1953
splatting1976
1816 A. Rees Cycl. (1819) XXXIV 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.
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society > occupation and work > industry > working with specific materials > working with metal > [noun] > conversion of metals > of iron into steel
conversion1837
steelifying1843
steeling1860
steelification1875
1860 Repertory Patent Inventions 36 317 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.
1860 Repertory Patent Inventions 36 318 The conversion into steel or the ‘steeling’ of iron or of cast iron.
1977 Sci. 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.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > printmaking > engraving > intaglio printing > [noun] > metal plate > facing plate with steel
steeling1871
1871 P. G. Hamerton 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.
1887 Athenæum 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.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > [noun] > metal
steeling1869
1869 W. J. M. Rankine Cycl. Machine & Hand-tools Pl.K 3 The bottom steeling on which iron is placed when it is being cut [by the shears].
1869 W. J. M. Rankine Cycl. Machine & Hand-tools Pl.K 11 The steelings [of a guillotine plate shears] are 6 feet 6 inches long.
Compounds
steeling-box n. ? a box-iron (cf. steel v. 7).
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a1680 J. Glanvill Saducismus Triumphatus (1681) ii. 152 That she hurt Dorothy the Wife of George Vining, by giving an Iron slate to put into her steeling Box.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online September 2021).
steelingadj.
/ˈstiːlɪŋ/ That steels, in quot. 1849 hardening, stiffening.
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the world > life > the body > bodily constitution > bodily strength > strengthening > [adjective]
strengthening1571
roborating1615
enabling1628
strengthing1672
steeling1849
fortifying1863
1849 C. Stovel Canne's Necessitie of Separation Introd. p. x He had already sustained the steeling influence of ‘seventeen years’ spent in banishment.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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