cold steel

English

Noun

cold steel (uncountable)

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

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