cast steel

American  

noun

1. any of various steels cast in molds to form objects.

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cast steel British  

noun

1. steel containing varying amounts of carbon, manganese, phosphorus, silicon, and sulphur that is cast into shape rather than wrought

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Other Word Forms

• cast-steel
  adjective

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Etymology

Origin of cast steel

First recorded in 1770–80

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Example Sentences

See Examples For:

cast steel

And some customers who need costly precision-cut or cast steel want a close-by supplier in case they have to return a part for adjustments.

From Economist ● Jan. 28, 2016

Casting U.S. tank turrets and hulls, heretofore riveted or welded together from steel plate, gets rid of another traditional prejudice against cast steel: that it couldn't successfully be toughened by heating and quenching.

From Time Magazine Archive

But Richards grew tired of taking a hacksaw to cast steel, so he called up Chicago Roller Skate Company and proposed that the company send him the trucks already separated.

From Time Magazine Archive

The process of making cast steel was reinvented in England by Benjamin Huntsman of Attercliff, near Sheffield, about 1740.

From Inventions in the Century by William Henry Doolittle

After several years’ trials he at last produced a satisfactory cast steel, purer and harder than any steel then in use.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 8 "Hudson River" to "Hurstmonceaux" by Various

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