cast-steeln.
A hard steel made from broken-up blistered steel melted in a crucible and run into ingot-moulds; crucible-steel. Also attributive.
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1778 P. Thicknesse Year's Journey France & Spain (ed. 2) I. xvi. 149 An English cast steel razor.
1792 Brit. Pat. 1869 2 The greatest part of the metal will be found to be steel, and sufficiently converted for making into cast steel.
1800 Repertory of Arts 14 177 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.
1807 Salmagundi 27 June 237 His learned distinctions between wrought scissors and those of cast-steel.
1812 H. Davy Elements Chem. Philos. 390 Cemented steel is made into the substance called cast steel by being fused in a close crucible with a mixture of powdered glass and charcoal.
1842 Penny Cycl. XXIII. 3/1 The celebrated wootz, or Indian steel, is cast-steel.
1848 W. H. Emory Notes Mil. Reconnaissance 132 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (30th Congr., 1st Sess.: House of Representatives Exec. Doc. 41) IV The wooden plough, the harrow, and the cast-steel axe.
1851 H. Watts tr. L. Gmelin Hand-bk. Chem. V. 207 Specific gravity..of hardened cast-steel, 7·6578.
1858 W. Greener Gunnery in 1858 129 Mr. Armstrong may..lay claim to being an originator of wrought steel cannon;..to Mr. Krupp is due the honour of first introducing cast steel cannon to the notice of our Government.
1868 Jrnl. Chem. Soc. 21 281 Cast-steel containing less than 0·3 per cent. of carbon is no longer capable of being hardened.
1880 Encycl. Brit. XIII. 356/2 Cast steel products.
1923 Man. Seamanship (H.M.S.O.) II. 257 Cast Steel is employed [in ship-building] in several qualities.
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