steeling

steeling

1. present participle and gerund of steel

steeling (plural steelings)

1. A strengthening with, or as if with, steel.
   • 1951, The Australasian Engineer, page 163:

     The joints of the toggle mechanism are equipped with steelings of special hardened steel, and are of ample dimensions to withstand the great pressure exerted in embossing or coining.

   • 1968, Francis Stewart Leland Lyons, John Dillon: a biography, page 19:

     Alas against such terrors as this all steelings of the heart are absolutely useless.

• Gentiles, Glenties, gentiles, setleing, sleeting