cast steel

Noun

cast steel (countable and uncountable, plural cast steels)

1. The steel making up a steel casting, in the sense of one cast to finished (net) or near-net shape: the product of a steel foundry (as opposed to a steel mill); the steel counterpart to cast iron.
2. (archaic) Steel that has been poured from (cast out of) a vessel (e.g., crucible, ladle, or furnace) while molten, as opposed to blister steel, which has been formed by carburizing and hammering iron bars.
   • CAST STEEL / A search for metals of lighter, and more durable qualities than iron led to a new process in producing steel. In 1740 Benjamin Huntsman, a watchmaker, searching for a lighter, and less brittle metal than the old blister steel, hit upon melting steel in a crucible, or in a pot, lined...1949, History Committee of District No. 1 of the Steel Founders' Society of America, edited by AD Graeff AD, A History of Steel Casting, District No. 1 of the Steel Founders' Society of America...
   • Several journals make a note of the fact that the William Butcher Steel Works supplied 3000 tons of cast steel for the building of the Eads Bridge across the Mississippi River at St. Louis, and the content of the statements may lead readers to assume that these were steel castings. In the opinion...1949, History Committee of District No. 1 of the Steel Founders' Society of America, edited by AD Graeff, A History of Steel Casting, District No. 1 of the Steel Founders' Society of America, →LCCN...