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Iron

noun

A heavy ductile magnetic metallic element; is silver-white in pure form but readily rusts; used in construction and tools and armament; plays a role in the transport of oxygen by the blood. Synonyms: atomic number 26, Fe.

A golf club that has a relatively narrow metal head.

Implement used to brand live stock. Synonym: branding iron.

Home appliance consisting of a flat metal base that is heated and used to smooth cloth. Synonym: smoothing iron.

verb

(past & past part. ironed; pres. part. ironing)

Press and smooth with a heated iron. Synonyms: iron out, press. "She stood there ironing"

adjective

Extremely robust. Synonym: cast-iron.

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... by rare weeping conifers. To the right and left, the famous weedless lawns studded with "specimen" trees (each of a different variety) rolled away to long ranges of grass crested with elaborate cast-iron ornaments; and below, in a hollow, lay the four-roomed stone house which the first Patroon had built on the ...

— The Age of Innocence • Edith Wharton

... them, clear-eyed, iron-muscled, quick-footed to the last man of them. For wherever Packard pay was taken it went into the pockets of just such as these, purposeful, self-reliant, men's men who could be counted on in a pinch ...

— Man to Man • Jackson Gregory

... feature was that the distance between the photographic plate and the object glass of the telescope should be measured by a long iron rod which was kept in position above the line of sight of the telescope itself. This afforded the means of determining to what angle a given measure on the plate would correspond. The whole arrangement would enable the position ...

— The Reminiscences of an Astronomer • Simon Newcomb

... were the principal materials on which they depended for their manufactures, they were well acquainted with several metals. Gold and silver were classed under the general name puvak, and distinguished as white and yellow; iron and copper were both known as [c]hi[c]h, and distinguished also by their color. The metals formed an important element of their riches, and are constantly referred to as part of the tribute paid to the rulers. They were worked into ornaments, ...

— The Annals of the Cakchiquels • Daniel G. Brinton

... probably in the accumulated dust of ages blown from the Mongolian plateau. The passage from north to south is generally from the older to the newer rocks; from east to west a similar series is found, with some volcanic features in the west and south. Coal and iron are the chief minerals, gold, silver, copper, lead, tin, ...

— Myths and Legends of China • E. T. C. Werner

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