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

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

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)

Thus constructed of three pieces of wood, united by alternate opposite dovetails and bound together by cold-drawn iron plates, they revolved in the trees or amaxopodes.

From The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio

The first of the following analyses is that of the sample which I believe the cold-drawn.

From The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. by Simmonds, P. L.

Mustard Oil.—Where this is recommended the cold-drawn oil is meant, not the essential oil.

From Papers on Health by Kirk, Edward Bruce