presteel

English

Etymology

From pre- +‎ steel.

Adjective

presteel (not comparable)

1. Before steel.
   • 2001, William Alan Blair, William Pencak, Making and Remaking Pennsylvania's Civil War, page 107:

     He made his fortune during the presteel era of Pittsburgh's development — the period before Andrew Carnegie and Henry Clay Frick — beginning in the 1820s and 1830s with a start in pharmaceuticals and white lead.