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presteel

presteel adjective: before steel.

Adjective

presteel (not comparable)

  1. Before steel.
    • He made his fortune during the presteel era of Pittsburgh's development — the period before Andrew Carnegie and Henry Clay Frick — beginning in the 1820s and 1830s with a start in pharmaceuticals and white lead.2001, William Alan Blair, William Pencak, Making and Remaking Pennsylvania's Civil War, page 107

Origin of presteel

From pre- + steel.

Questions about presteel

What does presteel mean?
Presteel means before steel.
What part of speech is presteel?
Presteel is an adjective.

Words near presteel in the dictionary

  1. presteaming
  2. presteams
  3. prested
  4. Prestedge
  5. Prestedges
  6. presteel
  7. Presteigne
  8. Prestel
  9. prestellar
  10. prestenotic
  11. prester

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