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A movable furrowed piece of steel struck by the flint, to throw sparks into the pan, in an early form of flintlock.

• Steelhead
  A North Pacific salmon (Salmo Gairdneri) found from Northern California to Siberia; -- called also hardhead, and preesil.
• STEELBOWGOODS
  Those goods on a farm, such as corn, cattle, implements husbandry, etc., which may not be carried off by a removing tenant, as being the property of the landlord.
• Movables
  of Movable
• Steeliness
  The quality of being steely.
• THROWCROOK
  An instrument used for twisting ropes out of straw.
• Movableness
  The quality or state of being movable; mobility; susceptibility of motion.
• THROWINGSTICK
  An instrument used by various savage races for throwing a spear; -- called also throw stick and spear thrower. One end of the stick receives the butt of the spear, as upon a hook or thong, and the other end is grasped with the hand, which also holds the
• Steelyard
  A form of balance in which the body to be weighed is suspended from the shorter arm of a lever, which turns on a fulcrum, and a counterpoise is caused to slide upon the longer arm to produce equilibrium, its place upon this arm (which is notched o
• THROWOFF
  A start in a hunt or a race. [Eng.]
• Pieceless
  Not made of pieces; whole; entire.
• Flint glass
  A soft, heavy, brilliant glass, consisting essentially of a silicate of lead and potassium. It is used for tableware, and for optical instruments, as prisms, its density giving a high degree of dispersive power; -- so called, because formerly the
• Piecely
  In pieces; piecemeal.
• Strucken
  of Strike
• Flint-hearted
  Hard-hearted.

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