Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗Made of steel. · Similar to steel in color, strength, or the like; steely. · Of or belonging to the manufacture or trade in steel. · Containing steel.
An artificial metal produced from iron, harder and more elastic than elemental iron; used figuratively as a symbol of hardness. · Bladed or pointed weapons, as swords, javelins, daggers. · A piece used for striking sparks from flint or ferrocerium. · Armor.
To edge, cover, or point with steel. · To back with steel. · To treat a liquid with steel for medicinal purposes. · To electroplate an item (particularly an engraving plate) with a layer of iron.
From Middle English stele, stel, from Old English stīele, from Proto-West Germanic *stahlī (“something made of steel”), enlargement of *stahl (“steel”), from Proto-Germanic *stahlą, from *stah- or *stag- (“to be firm, rigid”), from Proto-Indo-European *stak- (“to stay, to be firm”). Compare Scots stele, Yola stehli, German Stahl, Dutch staal, Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish stål.
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