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hot-short

American

[hot-shawrt] / ˈhɒtˈʃɔrt /

adjective

(of steel or wrought iron) brittle when heated, usually due to high sulfur content.

Other Word Forms

hot-shortness

noun

Etymology

Origin of hot-short

1790–1800; hot + short, as in red-short

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