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A shallow wooden vessel for holding milk or cream. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] Grose.

The common European sheldrake. [Prov. Eng.]

Steel low in carbon; mild steel; ingot iron.

= Split pulley.

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

Same as Chain wheel.

nd 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.

The process of pointing, edging, or overlaying with steel; specifically, acierage. See Steel, v.

Made of steel; consisting of steel. "The steely point of Clifford's lance." Shak. Around his shop the steely sparkles flew. Gay.

indicating the weight; a Roman balance; -- very commonly used also in the plural form, steelyards.

Having a paddle wheel at the stern; as, a stern-wheel steamer.

A steamboat having a stern wheel instead of side wheels. [Colloq. U.S.]

A wheel used for measuring, by its motion when submerged, the velocity of flowing water; a current wheel.

To trail along; to saunter or be drawn along, carelessly, swaying in a kind of zigzag motion. [Colloq.] Thackeray.

Rolled steel in structural shapes.

A worm or worm wheel; a tangent screw.