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HARD STEEL
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Dictionary entry overview: What does hard steel mean?
• HARD STEEL (noun)
The noun HARD STEEL has 1 sense:
1. steel with more than 0.3% carbon
Familiarity information: HARD STEEL used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Steel with more than 0.3% carbon
Classified under:
Nouns denoting substances
Hypernyms ("hard steel" is a kind of...):
steel (an alloy of iron with small amounts of carbon; widely used in construction; mechanical properties can be varied over a wide range)
Context examples
When she paid the coachman she took her money out of a hard steel purse, and she kept the purse in a very jail of a bag which hung upon her arm by a heavy chain, and shut up like a bite.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
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