Steeled

ppl. a. [f. STEEL sb.¹ or v. + -ED.]

  1.  Made of steel, or with the outer surface, edge or point of steel.

a. 900.  Cynewulf’s Christ, 679. Sum mæʓ styled sweord wæpen ʓewyrcan.

a. 1225.  Juliana, 58. Ha bigon to breoken al as þat istelet irn to limede hire.

c. 1350.  Lybeaus Disc. (Kaluza), 976. Wiþ coronals stif and stelde, Eiþer smitte oþer in þe scheld, Wiþ well greet envie.

a. 1400[?].  in Rel. Ant., I. 240. Stark strokes thei stryken on a stelyd stokke.

1513.  Douglas, Æneis, VII. xi. 79. Al instrumentis of pleuch graith, irnit or stelit.

1591.  Shaks., 1 Hen. VI., I. i. 85. Giue me my steeled Coat. Ile fight for France.

1639.  Du Verger, trans. Camus’ Admir. Events, 35. He seeks to end his dayes … another time by poison, againe by some steeled weapon.

1747.  Hooson, Miner’s Dict., E 2 b. This sort will wear a new steel’d pick off in three or four times Sharping.

1751.  Labelye, Piers Westm. Bridge, 4. Sharp and well steel’d Drills.

1841.  Civil Engin. & Arch. Jrnl., IV. 29/1. By the use of steeled tires these evils are henceforth to be avoided.

  b.  (See STEEL v. 1 c.)

1890.  Pall Mall Gaz., 26 April, 3/1. Practically all the artist’s proofs which find their way into the market are taken from these ‘steeled’ plates.

  2.  Of a man, army, etc.: Armed or protected with steel.

1596.  Edward III., III. iii. 219. Then thus our steelde Battailes shall be rainged.

1672.  Dryden, 1st Pt. Conq. Granada, I. i. On their steel’d Heads their demy-Lances wore Small Pennons which their Ladies Colours bore.

1819.  Keats, Otho, I. iii. 67. Amid a camp whose steeled swarms I dar’d But yesterday.

  3.  Of wine, etc.: Containing an infusion of steel.

1640.  Parkinson, Theat. Bot., 444. Being drunk in steeled or red wine.

1694.  Salmon, Bate’s Dispens. (1713), 594/2. The Chalybeated or Steeled Syrup.

  4.  Wearing a ‘steel’ for sharpening knives. nonce-use.

1827.  Hone, Every-day Bk., II. 132. A ‘steeled’ butcher … carries the flag.

  5.  Of a person, his attributes, etc.: Hardened like steel, insensible to impression, inflexible.

1599.  Shaks., Hen. V., II. ii. 36. So seruice shall with steeled sinewes toyle. Ibid. (1603), Meas. for M., IV. ii. 90. This is a gentle Prouost, sildome when The steeled Gaoler is the friend of men.

1624.  A. H., in J. Davies’ (Heref.) Scourge Paper-Persecutors, I. 5. What steeled patience could behold those Dawes Præuaricate the Muses sacred Lawes.

1713.  Tickell, Prosp. Peace, 133. Let the steel’d Turk be dear to Matrons Cries.

1810.  Shelley, Zastrozzi, ii. Pr. Wks. 1888, I. 11. His steeled soul persisted in its scheme.

1826.  Disraeli, Viv. Grey, III. v. This last specimen of Mrs. Felix Lorraine was somewhat too much even for the steeled nerves of Vivian Grey.