Definition of Redshort

1. a. Hot-short; brittle when red-hot; -- said of certain kinds of iron.

Definition of Redshort

1. redsear [adj] - See also: redsear

Lexicographical Neighbors of Redshort

reds
reds under the bed
redsear
redshank
redshanks
redshare
redshift
redshifted
redshifting
redshifts
redshire
redshirt
redshirted
redshirting
redshirts
redshort (current term)
redskin
redskins
redstart
redstarts
redstem filaree
redstem storksbill
redstreak
redstreaks
redtail
redtails
redthroat
redthroats
redtop

Literary usage of Redshort

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Principles of the Manufacture of Iron & Steel, with Some Notes on the by Isaac Lowthian Bell (1884)
"... also made in rotary furnace, being redshort ... '015 '121 "019 '138 -016 There is obviously nothing in the fixed impurities which tends to throw any ..."

2. Principles of the Manufacture of Iron and Steel: With Some Notes on the by Isaac Lowthian Bell (1884)
"... being redshort ... -015 '121 -019 '138 -016 There is obviously nothing in the fixed impurities which tends to throw any light on the cause of the ..."

3. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and (1917)
"We heard, of redshort steel elsewhere but otherwise knew nothing about it. Our soft steel for boiler plate contained from 0.2 to 0.3 per cent, of manganese. ..."

4. Reports of Committees by United States Congress. Senate (1874)
"The Missouri ores are red- short ores; that is, Iron Mountain is very strongly redshort, and other Missouri ores are less ..."

5. The Mechanical and Other Properties of Iron and Steel in Connection with by Augustus Vosmaer (1891)
"This effect of manganese is very intense; whilst weld iron or steel (those kinds of iron and steel not obtained in a fluid but in a pasty state) is redshort ..."

6. Transactions by American Institute of Mining Engineers, Metallurgical Society of AIME, Society of Mining Engineers of AIME. (1917)
"We heard of redshort steel elsewhere but otherwise knew nothing about it. ... of every sort which, if present, would have tended to make the steel redshort. ..."

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