1 wootz | Definition of wootz

wootz

noun
\ ˈwüts\
variants: or wootz steel
plural -es

Definition of wootz

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

History and Etymology for wootz

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

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