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To harden (a ferrous alloy) so that the surface layer is made considerably harder than the interior (as by carburizing and quenching, cyaniding, carbonitriding, or nitriding).

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  • The same salt may be used to caseharden wrought iron.
  • A Uberti in 44-40 Blue/caseharden Steel, NM, 5 l/2 bbl, Walnut grips.
  • I am persuaded that all valetudinarians are too sedentary, too regular, and too cautious — We should sometimes increase the motion of the machine, to unclog the wheels of life;...
  • But I must take exercise, and caseharden myself.
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