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from The Century Dictionary.

  • More or less brittle when heated: as, hot-short iron.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Metal.) Brittle when heated, esp. beyond a red heat.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective More or less brittle when heated.

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