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  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Wootz  \Wootz\  (w[=oo]ts),  n.  [Perhaps  a  corruption  of  Canarese 
  ukku  steel.] 
  A  species  of  steel  imported  from  the  East  Indies,  valued  for 
  making  edge  tools;  Indian  steel.  It  has  in  combination  a 
  minute  portion  of  alumina  and  silica. 

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