"steele" meaning in English

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Noun

Head templates: {{en-noun|?}} steele
  1. Obsolete spelling of steel. Tags: alt-of, obsolete Alternative form of: steel
    Sense id: en-steele-en-noun-VO5okt84 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 3 entries, Pages with entries
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          "text": "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.",
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          "text": "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)",
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