cast steels

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...