| Summary: | hand But now I suppose part o' the reason that Tilt Cove went down - they only never had no machinery,you know,like they got now, for drillin' an' that; 'twas only hand-steelin',an' I suppose they couldn't get enough out of her. (Following context make it clear that the speaker intended to say _hand-steelin_' but failed to pronounce the [t] after initial [s] in the second element) (sense here refers to the use of a steel bar,drill etc in mining) Yes DNE-cit J. D. A. WIDDOWSON JUL 1973 (sic: no [t] pronounced) Used I and Sup Not used Withdrawn
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