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Word entry · 5 letters

steel

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"Metal in beams"

5 letters · collected on this word page

5 lettersPronunciation /stiːl/Part of speech verb, nounSorted eelstStarts with SEnds with L3 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. cover, plate, or edge with steel

Word origin

From Middle English stele, stel, from Old English stīele, from Proto-West Germanic *stahlī (“something made of steel”), enlargement of *stahl (“steel”), from Proto-Germanic *stahlą, from *stah- or *stag- (“to be firm, rigid”), from Proto-Indo-European *stak- (“to stay, to be firm”). Compare Scots stele, Yola stehli, German Stahl, Dutch staal, Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish stål.

Used in a sentence

  • Ocearium stæli.
  • Accearium steeli.
  • Þe alle þine leomen wule to-draȝen. þeh þu weore stel al.

Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0

Used as a crossword answer3 curated clues

01Metal in beams5 letters
02Strong metal5 letters
03Hard strong metal5 letters

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