shear steel
English
Noun
shear steel (countable and uncountable, plural shear steels)
- A steel suitable for shears, scythes, and other cutting instruments, prepared from fagots of blistered steel by repeated heating, rolling, and tilting, to increase its malleability and fineness of texture.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for shear steel in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
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