redshare

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A form of red-short — hot short; brittle when red-hot; said of certain kinds of iron

Scrabble 12

Meanings

adjectiveredshare (comparative more redshare, superlative most redshare)

comparative more redshare · superlative most redshare

  1. obsoleteObsolete form of red-short.
    1 more example

    quoted in 2022, C. F. G. Clark, The Curiosities of Dudley and the Black Country […] yet this stone [Cannock] is so Sulphurious and Terrestrial, not fit to make Iron; because the Iron thereof is very Redshare, which is that if a workman should Draw or Forge out a Share mould fit for a Plough in that red heat, it would crack and not be fit for the Use of the Husbandman's Plough or Share.

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APA

redshare. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/redshare

MLA

“redshare.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/redshare. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “redshare,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/redshare.

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