Lewis Short
chălybs (noun M) = χάλυψ:
* Steel (cf. Plin. 34, 14, 41, § 142 sq.): vulnificus (because weapons were made of it),Verg. A. 8, 446; on account of its hardness: ferro durior et chalybe,Prop. 1, 16, 30; cf. Sen. Herc. Oet. 152; Sil. 1, 171; 2, 403.
* Meton., the things made of it.
* A sword: strictus,Sen. Thyest. 364.
* A horse's bit, Luc. 6, 398.
* The point of an arrow, Luc. 7, 518; Val. Fl. 6, 342; Sil. 2, 107 al.
* An iron rail, Luc. 6, 547.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary