steel
n.— «These pebbles cause real problems for the sleds’ runners, or as they say in luge, “steels.”» —“Pebbles make for tough sledding” by John Morgan NBCOlympics.com Feb. 9, 2006. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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