Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Steel which has been rendered homogeneous by remelting in crucibles or pots: for this reason sometimes called
crucible or homogeneous steel.
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Examples
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In 1845, Perry received a cast-steel, double-barreled muzzleloader from Morgan James, a New York gunmaker, which provoked "more than my usual fall fever for a deer hunt."
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In 1845, Perry received a cast-steel, double-barreled muzzleloader from Morgan James, a New York gunmaker, which provoked "more than my usual fall fever for a deer hunt."
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At three feet, the group struck a cross-pattern of two lengths of rusted cast-steel steam pipe, each three feet long.
Shadow of the Sentinel WARREN GETLER 2003
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Flat, usually planed cast-steel plate or granite plate used as support for scribing work, preferably with height gauges.
3. Accessories Frank Wenghfer 1990
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Strong and flat cast-steel plates which are held by a stand or put on a work bench and are used for most hammering work.
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Lloyd Haigh presented several samples of very good wire, apparently cast-steel, of three different stocks.
The Great Bridge David McCullough 1972
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The piston is of cast-steel, and the rod is of iron, 12 inches in diameter.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 303, October 22, 1881 Various
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Here was a tool constructed with a skeleton iron body, having a curved wooden handle; the plane iron is of the finest cast-steel; the cover is fitted with an ingenious trigger at the top, which, with a screw below the iron, admits of the plane iron being removed for sharpening and setting without the aid of the hammer, and with the greatest ease.
Woodworking Tools 1600-1900 Peter C. Welsh
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During the shut-down the broken plates were reinforced temporarily with steel ribs and reinforced concrete (Fig. 1, Plate LXXIII) which, on completion of the work, were replaced by cast-steel segments, as described elsewhere.
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After rising, we had ten minutes to wash our faces and hands, -- a period by the experience of mankind demonstrably insufficient, where the soap is of that kind very properly denominated cast-steel (though purists have a different spelling), and you have to break an inch of ice to get into the available region of your water-pitcher.
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