A sewing needle; a knitting needle; a sharp metal stylus.
Extreme hardness or resilience.
Varieties of this metal.
The gray hue of this metal; steel-gray, or steel blue.
A honing steel, a tool used to sharpen or hone metal blades.
An artificial metal produced from iron, harder and more elastic than elemental iron; used figuratively as a symbol of hardness.
Armor.
An engraving plate
Pieces used to strengthen, support, or expand an item of clothing.
A type of slide used while playing the steel guitar.
Projectiles.
Bladed or pointed weapons, as swords, javelins, daggers.
A fringe of beads or decoration of this metal.
A piece used for striking sparks from flint.
A flat iron.
To cause to resemble steel in appearance.
To steelify; to turn iron into steel.
To edge, cover, or point with steel.
To sharpen with a honing steel.
To harden or strengthen; to nerve or make obdurate; to fortify against.
To press with a flat iron.
To electroplate an item, particularly an engraving plate, with a layer of iron.
Made of steel.
Similar to steel in color, strength, or the like; steely.
Of or belonging to the manufacture or trade in steel.
Engraved on steel.
A knitting needle.
Any of the system of wires used to operate the puppets in a puppet show; hence, the network of hidden influences controlling the action of a person or organization; strings.
A piece of such material; a thread or slender rod of metal, a cable.
Metal formed into a thin, even thread, now usually by being drawn through a hole in a steel die.
A telecommunication wire or cable.
An electric telegraph; a telegram.
A hidden listening device on the person of an undercover operative for the purposes of obtaining incriminating spoken evidence.
A fence made of usually barbed wire.
A deadline or critical endpoint.
A metal conductor that carries electricity.
A finish line of a racetrack.
A wire strung with beads and hung horizontally above or near the table which is used to keep score.
The slender shaft of the plumage of certain birds.
A covert signal sent between people cheating in a card game.
To send a message or monetary funds to another person through a telecommunications system, formerly predominantly by telegraph.
To place (a ball) so that the wire of a wicket prevents a successful shot.
To fasten with wire, especially with reference to wine bottles, corks, or fencing.
To set or predetermine (someone's personality or behaviour, or an organization's culture) in a particular way.
To string on a wire.
To add (something) into a system (especially an electrical system) by means of wiring.
To snare by means of a wire or wires.
To install eavesdropping equipment.
To make someone tense or psyched up. See also adjective wired.
To connect, involve or embed (something) deeply or intimately into (something else, such as an organization or political scene), so that it is plugged in (to that thing) (“keeping up with current information about (the thing)”) or has insinuated itself into (the thing).
To add or connect (something) into a system as if with wires (for example, with nerves).
To equip with wires for use with electricity.