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steelback

steelback noun: alicant, a Spanish wine.

Noun

steelback (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) Alicant, a Spanish wine
    • Onely the Portugal inhabitants, in their townes and cities (being many and great) doe make a kinde of wine of dryed grapes or raysins of the sunne, for relish and operation the best (I thinike) in the world, not inferiour to the Spanish nectar, el vino de San Martin, being pleasant, strong, and...1633, Christopher Farewell, “An East-India Colation”, in Foster, Sir William, editor, The Voyage of Nicholas Downton to the East Indies 1614-15, London: Hakluyt Society, published 1939, page 146

Origin of steelback

From steel (“to harden; to strengthen”) + back.

Questions about steelback

What does steelback mean?
Steelback means alicant, a Spanish wine.
What part of speech is steelback?
Steelback is a noun.

Words near steelback in the dictionary

  1. steel-toe boot
  2. steel-toe boots
  3. steel-wool
  4. steel-worker
  5. steel-workers
  6. steelback
  7. steelband
  8. steelbands
  9. steelbow
  10. Steelboy
  11. Steelboys

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