hot-short

[ hot-shawrt ]

adjective
  1. (of steel or wrought iron) brittle when heated, usually due to high sulfur content.

Origin of hot-short

1
1790–1800; hot + short, as in red-short

Other words from hot-short

  • hot-shortness, noun

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