wootz

noun

ˈwüts

variants or wootz steel

plural -es

: a steel made anciently in India by crude methods in small crucibles according to the oldest known process for making fused steel

Word History

Etymology

perhaps a mistranscription of wook, borrowed from Kannada urku, ukku "something melted, fused metal, steel"

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