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"Metal [from A Dictionary of the English Language in Which Words are Deduced from their Originals, and Illustrated in their Different Significations by Examples from the best Writers.]"
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Date: 1755
"Both kinds of metal he prepar'd, / Either to give blows or to ward; / Courage and steel both of great force"
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