The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word STEEL which also is the latest solution we found used in New York Times in 2024.
What many tins are made of, despite their name crossword clue answers
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| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| STEEL | 100 % | 5 |
Why may STEEL be the right solution?
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Crossword Answer definitions
STEEL noun- An artificial metal produced from iron, harder and more elastic than elemental iron; used figuratively as a symbol of hardness.
- Any item made of this metal, particularly including:
- Medicinal consumption of this metal; chalybeate medicine; (eventually) any iron or iron-treated water consumed as a medical treatment.
- Varieties of this metal.
- (colors) The gray hue of this metal; steel-gray, or steel blue.
- Extreme hardness or resilience.
- To edge, cover, or point with steel.
- To harden or strengthen; to nerve or make obdurate; to fortify against.
- (of mirrors) To back with steel.
- To treat a liquid with steel for medicinal purposes.
- To press with a flat iron.
- To cause to resemble steel in appearance.
- To steelify; to turn iron into steel.
- To electroplate an item, particularly an engraving plate, with a layer of iron.
- To sharpen with a honing steel.
- Made of steel.
- Similar to steel in color, strength, or the like; steely.
- Of or belonging to the manufacture or trade in steel.
- Containing steel.
- Engraved on steel.
- Coldbath Fields Prison in London, closed in 1877.
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