cold-drawn

British  

adjective

1. (of metal wire, bars, etc) having been drawn unheated through a die to reduce dimensions, toughen, and improve surface finish

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Example Sentences

Daily rubbing briskly over the whole body with the cold-drawn oil of mustard for a quarter-of-an-hour will have this effect, and even by itself may cure.

From Papers on Health by Kirk, Edward Bruce

But if more depends on the pilot, it is equally true to say that a higher degree of cold-drawn courage is demanded from the observer.

From The War in the Air; Vol. 1 The Part played in the Great War by the Royal Air Force by Raleigh, Walter Alexander, Sir

Commercial samples of linseed oil, when cold-drawn, have a much higher iodine absorption, probably due to the same cause.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 717, September 28, 1889 by Various

I made acquaintance, on this journey, with a mild and modest young quaker, who opened the discourse by informing me, in a grave whisper, that his grandfather was the inventor of cold-drawn castor oil.

From American Notes by Dickens, Charles

This material in the cold-drawn condition will show: Elastic limit, 50,000 lb. per square inch, elongation in 2 in.,

From The Working of Steel Annealing, Heat Treating and Hardening of Carbon and Alloy Steel by Colvin, Fred H. (Fred Herbert)