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cold steel en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (archaic, historical, uncountable) A sword, bayonet or similar weapon made of steel.
    • Give them the cold steel, boys! 1863 (attributed) Armistead, Bri. Gen. Lewis A. (commander of the only Confederate brigade that breached the Union line during Pickett's Charge, Battle of Gettysburg, July 3, 1863)
    • Yet the caracole had struggled against cold steel throughout the 16th century and had come off the victor. 2003, William P. Guthrie, The later Thirty Years War:
    • In your native homeland a stranger you will be by the law of the rifle and the law of cold steel 1995, David Palumbo-Liu, The ethnic canon: histories, institutions, and interventions:

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cold weapon · sabre · bright lights and cold steel · bayonet · Pickett's charge