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Is steel a Scrabble word?

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What is the meaning of steel?

Definition

noun (English)

1. (countable, uncountable) An artificial metal produced from iron, harder and more elastic than elemental iron; used figuratively as a symbol of hardness.Examples: "Ocearium stæli."; "Accearium steeli."; "Þe alle þine leomen wule to-draȝen. þeh þu weore stel al."countableuncountable

2. (countable) Any item made of this metal, particularly including:Examples: "For heom ne may halter ne bridel Bringe from here wode wyse, Ne mon mid stele ne mid ire."; "For braue Macbeth (well hee deſerues that Name) Diſdayning Fortune, with his brandiſht Steele, Which ſmoak'd with bloody execution (Like Valours Minion) caru'd out his paſſage."; "But who wou'd dream that out of abundant Charity and Brotherly Love shou'd come Steel, Fire, Gibbets, Rods."countableuncountable

3. (countable) Any item made of this metal, particularly including:Examples: "Of ston mid stel in ðe tunder wel to brennen one ðis wunder."; "The Cock falling with its wonted violence upon the Steel."countableuncountable

4. (countable) Any item made of this metal, particularly including:Examples: "Þai gun hem boþe armi In iren and stiel þat tide."; "In compleate steele."; "She that has [chastity], is clad in compleat steel."countableuncountable

5. (countable) Any item made of this metal, particularly including:Examples: "The steill to scherp the schawing jrne."; "When he came to Nottingham, he entered that part of the market where butchers stood, and took up his inn in the best place he could find. Next, he opened his stall and spread his meat upon the bench, then, taking his cleaver and steel and clattering them together, he trolled aloud in merry tones..."countableuncountable

6. (countable) Any item made of this metal, particularly including:Examples: "I haue a ruffe is a quarter deep, measured by the yeard... You haue a pretty set too, how big is the steele you set with?"; "I suppose the bullet must have struck the steels in my corsets."countableuncountable

adj (English)

1. (business) Of or belonging to the manufacture or trade in steel.Examples: "[T]he discoverie of the yron and steele mines."; "From their new dungeons at Chantilly, Aristocrats may hear the rustle of our new steel furnace there."; "East Chicago, Ind., a smoky Lake Michigan steel town that isn't exactly famous for its esthetic splendor even when the sun shines."not-comparable

2. (medicine, obsolete) Containing steel.Examples: "To mix some Sugar of steel, or steel wine with the first glass."; "I have found a singular Virtue in Steel drops, præpared after my Mode."; "I...take some nasty steel drops, & may head has been bettr."not-comparableobsolete

3. (printing) Engraved on steel.Examples: "The best picture I have had yet is the steel frontis-piece to my new book."not-comparable

verb (English)

1. (literally) To treat, furnish with, or transform into steel.Examples: "Hure þolien ant a beoren hare unirude duntes wið mealles istelet."; "When God...draws aside his curtain, and shows his arsenal and his armory, full of arrows steeled with wrath."; "It was the common notion...that the art of steeling tools in the highest degree of perfection was certainly lost to the moderns."literallytransitive

2. (literally) To treat, furnish with, or transform into steel.Examples: "Nay, a Crystall glasse will not show a man his face, except it be steeled, except it be darkned on the backside."literallyobsoletetransitive

3. (literally) To treat, furnish with, or transform into steel.Examples: "She drunk her drink steeled, with which she was cured."literallyobsoletetransitive

4. (literally) To treat, furnish with, or transform into steel.Examples: "My large dry-point,...called Two Stumps of Driftwood, gave 1000 copies (after being steeled) without perceptible wearing."literallytransitive

5. (literally) To treat, furnish with, or transform into steel.literallytransitive

6. (literally) To treat, furnish with, or transform into steel.Examples: "By passing an electric current thus through the bars the operation of steeling is much hastened."; "It seems evident that by the beginning of the 10th century B.C. blacksmiths were intentionally steeling iron."literallytransitive

name (English)

1. (UK, crime, slang, obsolete) Coldbath Fields Prison in London, closed in 1877.Examples: "I was lugged before the beak, who gave me six doss in the steel. [...] six months in the Bastille (the old House of Corrections), Coldbath Fields."; "He said he had been in the “steel” (Coldbath Fields Prison) eight times."; "This time I got two moon for assaulting the reelers when canon. For this I went to the Steel (Bastile^([sic]) — Coldbath Fields Prison), having a new suit of clobber on me and about fifty blow in my brigh (pocket)."UKobsoleteslangtransitive

name (English)

1. (UK, slang, obsolete, historical) Bridewell Prison in London, England.UKhistoricalobsoleteslang

Definition source: Wiktionary

What Scrabble words can I make with the letters in "steel"?

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Scrabble
5 points
S1
T1
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L1
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6 points
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T1
E1
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L2

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