Definitions from Wiktionary ( )

▸ noun:  (countable, uncountable) An artificial metal produced from iron, harder and more elastic than elemental iron; used figuratively as a symbol of hardness.
▸ noun:  (countable) Any item made of this metal, particularly including:
▸ noun:  Bladed or pointed weapons, as swords, javelins, daggers.
▸ noun:  A piece used for striking sparks from flint.
▸ noun:  Armor.
▸ noun:  A honing steel, a tool used to sharpen or hone metal blades.
▸ noun:  (sewing) Pieces used to strengthen, support, or expand an item of clothing.
▸ noun:  (dialectal) A flat iron.
▸ noun:  (sewing, dialectal) A sewing needle; a knitting needle; a sharp metal stylus.
▸ noun:  (printing) An engraving plate:
▸ noun:  Projectiles.
▸ noun:  (sewing) A fringe of beads or decoration of this metal.
▸ noun:  (music, guitar) A type of slide used while playing the steel guitar.
▸ noun:  (uncountable, medicine, obsolete) Medicinal consumption of this metal; chalybeate medicine; (eventually) any iron or iron-treated water consumed as a medical treatment.
▸ noun:  (uncountable, colors) The gray hue of this metal; steel-gray, or steel blue.
▸ noun:  (figurative) Extreme hardness or resilience.
▸ adjective:  Made of steel.
▸ adjective:  Similar to steel in color, strength, or the like; steely.
▸ adjective:  (business) Of or belonging to the manufacture or trade in steel.
▸ adjective:  (medicine, obsolete) Containing steel.
▸ adjective:  (printing) Engraved on steel.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To edge, cover, or point with steel.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To harden or strengthen; to nerve or make obdurate; to fortify against.
▸ verb:  (transitive, obsolete, of mirrors) To back with steel.
▸ verb:  (transitive, medicine, obsolete) To treat a liquid with steel for medicinal purposes.
▸ verb:  (transitive, dialectal) To press with a flat iron.
▸ verb:  (transitive, uncommon) To cause to resemble steel in appearance.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To steelify; to turn iron into steel.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To electroplate an item, particularly an engraving plate, with a layer of iron.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To sharpen with a honing steel.
▸ noun:  (UK, crime, slang, obsolete) Coldbath Fields Prison in London, closed in 1877.
▸ noun:  A surname.

---

▸ Word origin

▸ Words similar to steel
▸ Usage examples for steel

▸ Idioms related to steel
▸ Wikipedia articles (New!)
▸ Popular adjectives describing steel
▸ Popular nouns described by steel
▸ Words that often appear near steel
▸ Rhymes of steel

▸ Invented words related to steel