The elasticity and hardness of a metal object, its ability to absorb considerable energy before cracking
English: temper, toughness
Less certain link between this word and this sense.
keliatanms
temper, toughness
Rare
#24,861 of the corpus · 1.4 per million words · 6,166 occurrences
From liat (ke-…-an) · less common, #5,123