cast steel
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noun
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Etymology
Origin of cast steel
First recorded in 1770–80
Example Sentences
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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 author made an experiment upon this point with a very rigid surface plate six feet long, and three cast steel straight-edges 6 feet long, 41⁄2 inches wide, and 1⁄2 inch thick.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Joshua Rose
The office was bare of furniture save a new writing-table and two chairs, but heaped round the walls were piles of cast steel and iron plates and files and pipes for bellows.
From The Unveiling of Lhasa by Edmund Candler
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