steele

steele

1. (obsolete) Alternative form of steel.
   • 1592/3, Thomas Nashe, The Choise of Valentines‎ (Poetry), published 1899, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 February 2006‎:

     Adieu! faint-hearted instrument of lust; / That falselie hath betrayde our equale trust. / Hence-forth no more will I implore thine ayde, / Or thee, or man of cowardize upbrayde. / My little dilldo shall suply their kinde: / A knaue, that moues as light as leaues by winde; / That bendeth not, nor fouldeth anie deale, / But stands as stiff as he were made of steele; / And playes at peacock twixt my leggs right blythe, / And doeth my tickling swage with manie a sighe. / For, by saint Runnion! he'le refresh me well; / And neuer make my tender bellie swell.

   • 1601, Pliny, translated by P. Holland, Hist. World, II xxxiv xiv 514:

     The purest part thereof which in Latine is called Nucleus ferri, i. the kernell or heart of the yron (and it is that which we call steele)

   • 1611, The Holy Bible,  (King James Version), London: Robert Barker, , →OCLC, Jeremiah 15:12:

     Shall yron breake the Northren yron, and the steele?

     (The Hebrew word is נחשת meaning copper. "Bow of steele" occurs in three places translating קשת נחושה.)

   • c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, , line 33:

     ...Like a man of Steele.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:steele.

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek στήλη (stḗlē).

• IPA^(key): /ˈsteːle/,
• Rhymes: -eːle
• Syllabification^(key): stee‧le
• Hyphenation^(key): stee‧le

steele

1. (archaeology) stele (upright, or formerly upright slab containing engraved or painted decorations or inscriptions)

• steela

• leseet

• steel (Föhr-Amrum)
• stial (Sylt)

From Proto-Germanic *stelaną.

• (Mooring) IPA^(key):

steele

1. (Mooring) to steal