steel-faced
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of steel-faced
First recorded in 1870–75
Example Sentences
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While John Deere sold a steel-faced plow as early as 1838, it was James Oliver’s improvements to the device in the late 1860s that transformed life for homesteaders.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 30, 2014
The bruising-hammer is steel-faced, about 4 inches square, and 1-1/2 inch thick.
From A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. by Cornelius Beringer
As a rule, the plates are not steel-faced until after the proofs before lettering have been printed.
From A Treatise on Etching by Maxime Lalanne
His fingers came in touch with the chilly surface of a steel-faced door.
From Phantom Wires A Novel by Arthur William Brown
When we read modern advertisements of "cheap gentlemen's traveling bags" or "steel-faced carpenters' claw hammers," we may construe such phrases with a latitude which was not permitted to the Algonkins.
From The Composition of Indian Geographical Names Illustrated from the Algonkin Languages by J. Hammond (James Hammond) Trumbull
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