The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wootz \Wootz\ (w[=oo]ts), n. [Perhaps a corruption of Canarese ukku steel.] A species of steel imported from the East Indies, valued for making edge tools; Indian steel. It has in combination a minute portion of alumina and silica.
Wiktionary
n. A famous type of steel from India, much admired for making sword blades.
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "wootz".
Granted, absent the two of them, Home would not necessarily put an embargo on wootz sold to the dwarves, but it might not be so easy for someone without a letter of introduction from Slovotsky or Ahira to deal there.
Fine: I move we head Home with a load of blades, trade them in on a bigger load of wootz, and then head for Pandathaway, trading the wootz for less distinctive merchandise as we go.
Khoral goes, all I have to do is delay wootz shipments whenever he makes annexation noises.
Certainly, their silver, though harshly wrought, had a massive, sculptural beauty, and their weapons, crafted of the Indian steel they called wootz, were so sharp that he and Leo had accepted new blades with genuine gratitude.
Perhaps one day, Gumara hoped, they would take a smith who was willing to teach them to forge the wootz as well as they forged silver.
Disdaining his new wootz blade for his cavalry sword, Leo seemed to give a good account of himself until .
Suddenly, he began to sob rackingly, babbling of the proper crucible and charcoal, of watching the wootz turn the color of cherries or of blood before the smith forged it.
It had developed a lively merchant class that traded wootz steel ingots and finished weapons to Marshad for dianda, then shipped the dianda south to the city-states.