soft steel

American  

noun

1. mild steel.

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Etymology

Origin of soft steel

First recorded in 1865–70

Example Sentences

Radus began by building an unusually strong magnet, a slice of ceramic material sandwiched between flat plates of soft steel.

From Time Magazine Archive

Swords rode on their hips, singing their soft steel song as they rattled in their scabbards.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

This is called "rocking" and by it the soft steel of the roll is forced into the die and a reverse impression of the design is obtained.

From What Philately Teaches A Lecture Delivered before the Section on Philately of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, February 24, 1899 by Luff, John N.

A person who has not tried this method of cutting out soft steel would not believe with what facility pieces can be shaped.

From Watch and Clock Escapements A Complete Study in Theory and Practice of the Lever, Cylinder and Chronometer Escapements, Together with a Brief Account of the Origin and Evolution of the Escapement in Horology by Anonymous

Herring was another American who invented celebrated safes, made with a boiler-iron exterior, a hardened steel inner safe, with the interior filled with a casting of franklinite around rods of soft steel.

From Inventions in the Century by Doolittle, William Henry