tool steel

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   alloy steel that is suitable for making tools; is hard and tough and can retain a cutting edge

   Broaderalloy steel

   Narrowerhigh-speed steel

Questions about tool steel

What does tool steel mean?

tool steel means "alloy steel that is suitable for making tools; is hard and tough and can retain a cutting edge".

Is tool steel a common word?

tool steel is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.