Crossword clues for caseharden
caseharden
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Caseharden \Case"hard`en\, v. t.
To subject to a process which converts the surface of iron into steel.
To render insensible to good influences.
Wiktionary
alt. 1 To harden the surface of iron or steel by infusing carbon into the surface layer 2 (context by extension English) To make insensitive to hardship vb. 1 To harden the surface of iron or steel by infusing carbon into the surface layer 2 (context by extension English) To make insensitive to hardship
Usage examples of "caseharden".
The bronze giant, hardly pausing, snapped a casehardened hand to the fellow's spinal nerve center.
On this, the third Sunday of their imprisonment, they were stumbling through the last hour of the day before the lights were extinguished and they were finally permitted to crawl into their casehardened bunks.
At first he put it down to nervous shock it had been too many years since his casehardening on the Syccan battle line, and the events of the night had been enough to shake any man.