green strength
Americannoun
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Foundry. the tensile strength of greensand.
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Metallurgy. the tensile strength of an unsintered compact.
Example Sentences
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His lofty indignation retorts on the feeble irony of his antagonist with keen and caustic accusations; and the green strength of youth was still seen in the old man whose head was covered with snows.
From Calamities and Quarrels of Authors by Disraeli, Isaac
The leaves, losing the green strength of their blood, changed color and fluttered, wavering earthward from the boughs whereon they had spent so many sociable months.
From Bressant by Hawthorne, Julian
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