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work hardening

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noun

  1. the toughening or strengthening of a metal by cold-working or another mechanical process.


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The lawyers had not been at work hardening and defining vague traditions, and legally the position of the serf was far better than it was a hundred years later.

From Henry the Second by Green, Mrs. J. R.

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