steele
/stiːl/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.59 in modern English
6
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
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An English and Scottish surname originating as an occupation.
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Example Sentences
- "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."
- "The purest part thereof [of iron ore] which in Latine is called Nucleus ferri, i. the kernell or heart of the yron (and it is that which we call steele)"
- "[…] Like a man of Steele."
- "Shall yron breake the Northren yron, and the steele?"
Etymology
From Middle English stele (“steel”); either a metal worker or a person considered to be as hard as steel.
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