DCHP-3

steel

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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1an.

railway track.

Quotations

1888-1895
The fourth and last episode was the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway—that long, strong bright link of steel which binds the fair little island on the Atlantic coast with her bigger sister on the shores of the Pacific.
1963
But even such lowly creatures as laborers . . . followed the progress of the steel the way the captain of the Queen Elizabeth measures off his daily mileage
1bn.

a length of railway track.

Quotations

1909
As the steels were laid, the camp moved on from time to time, with its great crowds of men, most of them ready for a fight at any moment.
1cn.

a railway line.

Quotations

1912
The C.N.R. steel arrived in Edmonton in 1906, and the day the last rail was laid the property went for 24,000 dollars.
1928
With the coming of steel it consolidated its position through becoming the terminal at which (at near-by Waterways) the steamer meets the railways.
1938
From Norway House, Buck went to "Steel" at Mile 137 on the Hudson Bay Railway.
1953
Since there was no radio in those days, anyone going into the bush anywhere was cut off from the outside world as soon as he left "the steel."
2n. — Northwest

a steel drum of or for oil, gasoline, etc.

Quotations

1959
I asked . . . about the availability of my two steels of aviation gasoline.
3n. — West Coast

a fish, Salmo gairdnerii, of the Pacific coast, which spawns in fresh water after two or three years in the sea.

Quotations

1961
Vedder River--[they] hooked 10 steels in high-ish, somewhat-colored water Sunday, landed only two.
1967
Most Cheakamus steels are five-year, rather than the usual four-year-old fish. . . .