cold steel
English
Noun
- (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 breached 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.
- 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):
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