end of steel
Britishnoun
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a point up to which railway tracks have been laid
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a town located at such a point
Example Sentences
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Lawyers for Sanjeev Gupta, executive chairman of GFG Alliance which owns Liberty, warned that a winding up order could mean the end of steel production at the plant.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2025
A failure to act and tackle the dumping of cheap Chinese steel will spell the end of steel in the U.K.,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2015
It had averaged eight miles an hour on its climb toward Yellowhead Pass and the end of steel.
From The Hunted Woman by Curwood, James Oliver
At a little town at the end of steel Ben and Ezram ended the first lap of their journey.
From The Sky Line of Spruce by Marshall, Edison
This was the end of steel for the auto, the rest of the journey had to be made on foot via the elevator.
From Skookum Chuck Fables Bits of History, Through the Microscope by Cumming, R. D. (Robert Dalziel)
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