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Hard steel

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1.Steel hardened by the addition of other elements, as manganese, phosphorus, or (usually) carbon.
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Noun1.Hard steelhard steel - steel with more than 0.3% carbon
steel - an alloy of iron with small amounts of carbon; widely used in construction; mechanical properties can be varied over a wide range


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Those who have never had a bit in their mouths cannot think how bad it feels; a great piece of cold hard steel as thick as a man's finger to be pushed into one's mouth, between one's teeth, and over one's tongue, with the ends coming out at the corner of your mouth, and held fast there by straps over your head, under your throat, round your nose, and under your chin; so that no way in the world can you get rid of the nasty hard thing; it is very bad
Black Beauty by Sewell, Anna View in context
Round went the busily revolving machinery, kept in motion by the scissor-grinder's foot, and wore away the hard steel against the hard stone, whence issued an intense and spiteful prolongation of a hiss as fierce as those emitted by Satan and his compeers in Pandemonium, though squeezed into smaller compass.
House Of Seven Gables by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context
When she paid the coachman she took her money out of a hard steel purse, and she kept the purse in a very jail of a bag which hung upon her arm by a heavy chain, and shut up like a bite.
David Copperfield by Dickens, Charles View in context
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