That's his idea, and he is busy on a model made out of the steels of his wife's stays.
steels, Concordia, with doves on square and astronomical globe.
All are expectant She wavers again, and steels herself to resolution.
Before you white people came with your flints and steels, we had it.
It's kitchen-day, and I do my steels and brasses before breakfast.
It steels the mind and sets the resolution as no other emotion can do.
But when he smote on Trenchefer the steels rang sharp; the blow was turned.
steels may contain all the way from one tenth to one and a half per cent.
The best of the steels had their elastic limits; there was none that did not finally snap.
But the steels had been back two days, and Morna could not wait another hour.
Old English style, from West Germanic adjective *stakhlijan "made of steel" (cf. Old Saxon stehli, Old Norse, Middle Low German stal, Danish staal, Swedish stål, Middle Dutch stael, Dutch staal, Old High German stahal, German Stahl), related to *stakhla "standing fast," from PIE *stek-lo-, from root *stak- "to stand, place, be firm" (see stay (n.1)). No corresponding word exists outside Germanic except those likely borrowed from Germanic languages. Steel wool is attested from 1896.
"make hard or strong like steel," 1580s, figurative, from steel (n.). Related: Steeled; steeling.
