Steel

stel, n. Iron combined with a small portion of carbon, used in making a great variety of instruments an instrument made of steel, as a sword, knife, etc.; an instrument of steel for sharpening table knives upon; hardne ; sternne ; rigor. — v. [steeled (steld), steeling.] To overlay, point, or edge with steel; to make hard or extremely hard: to make insensible or obdurate; to cause to resemble steel, as in smoothne , polish, or other qualities. [AS. D. and Dan. staal, G. stahl, contr. OHG. staked; Skr. stak, to resist, Lithuan. stokas, a stake.] — Steel'y, a. Steelyard..Made, consisting of, or resembling, steel: hard; firm. — Steel'yard, steKor stiKvard, n. A form of balance in which the body to be weighed suspended from the shorter arm of a lever and the poise upon the longer arm, which marked with notches to indicate the weight. [Orig. used in the Steelyard (place where steel was sold), in London.]