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Steel containing a high percentage of carbon; high-carbon steel.

Same as Wootz.

Steel cast in ingots from the Bessemer converter or open-hearth furnace.

See under Low.

Cast steel containing a considerable percentage of manganese, which makes it very hard and tough. See Alloy steel, above.

A sort of steel which has been found where a burning coal seam had reduced and carbonized adjacent iron ore.

Steel made by the direct refining of cast iron in a finery, or, as wootz, by a direct process from the ore.

A kind of cast steel containing nickel, which greatly increases its strength. It is used for armor plate, bicycle tubing, propeller shafts, etc.

See under Open.

A steel in which the amount of phosphorus exceeds that of carbon.

Puddled steel. [U. S. ]

See under Shear.

See Open-hearth steel, under Open.

Steel low in carbon; mild steel; ingot iron.

A variety of steel, elastic, strong, and tough, rolled for springs, etc.

and a half per cent of carbon), and consisting of an alloy of iron with an iron carbide. Steel, unlike wrought iron, can be tempered, and retains magnetism. Its malleability decreases, and fusibility increases, with an increase in carbon.

Those goods on a farm, such as corn, cattle, implements husbandry, etc., which may not be carried off by a removing tenant, as being the property of the landlord.

One who points, edges, or covers with steel.

A North Pacific salmon (Salmo Gairdneri) found from Northern California to Siberia; -- called also hardhead, and preesil.

The quality of being steely.