iron : Idioms & Phrases

• noun cast iron containing alloying elements (usually nickel or chromium or copper or molybdenum) to increase the strength or facilitate heat treatment
  alloy cast iron.
  

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• noun cast iron containing alloying elements (usually nickel or chromium or copper or molybdenum) to increase the strength or facilitate heat treatment
  alloy cast iron.
  

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• noun a magnetic allotrope of iron; stable below 906 degrees centigrade
  

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• noun an L-shaped metal bracket
  angle bracket.
  

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• (Mach.), a rolled bar or plate of iron having one or more angles, used for forming the corners, or connecting or sustaining the sides of an iron structure to which it is riveted.

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• the clay ironstone.

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• . See Wrought iron (below).

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Bark"ing i`rons

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1. Instruments used in taking off the bark of trees. Gardner.
2. A pair of pistols. Slang

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• noun pig iron containing a high percentage of phosphorus; used in making steel by a process that removes the phosphorus
  

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• a very fusible variety of cast iron, from which figures and other delicate articles are manufactured. These are often stained or lacquered in imitation of bronze.

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• noun an allotrope of iron that is the same as alpha iron except that it is nonmagnetic; stable between 768 and 906 degrees centigrade
  

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• bog ore; limonite. See Bog ore, under Bog.

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• plate or rolled iron of about a quarter to a half inch in thickness, used for making boilers and tanks, for covering ships, etc.

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• one of the iron rings on the yards through which the studding-sail booms traverse.

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Box"-i`ron noun

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1. A hollow smoothing iron containing a heater within.

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Brand" i`ron

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1. A branding iron.
2. A trivet to set a pot on. Huloet.
3. The horizontal bar of an andiron.

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• noun implement used to brand live stock
  iron.
  

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Brand"ing i`*ron

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1. An iron to brand with.

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Bri"dle i`ron

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1. (Arch.) A strong flat bar of iron, so bent as to support, as in a stirrup, one end of a floor timber, etc., where no sufficient bearing can be had; -- called also stirrup and hanger.

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• (Min.), the hydrous iron oxide, limonite, which has a brown streak. See Limonite.

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• (Mining), a broad-faced hammer, used in bucking or breaking up ores.

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• a peculiar kind of nippers or tweezers used in burling woolen cloth.

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• a tool like a chisel, used in calking ships, tightening seams in ironwork, etc.

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• noun an alloy of iron containing so much carbon that it is brittle and so cannot be wrought but must be shaped by casting
  

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• (Metal.), an impure variety of iron, containing from three to six percent of carbon, part of which is united with a part of the iron, as a carbide, and the rest is uncombined, as graphite. It there is little free carbon, the product is white iron; if much of the carbon has separated as graphite, it is called gray iron. See also Cast iron, in the Vocabulary.

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• adjective satellite extremely robust
  iron.
  
  • an iron constitution

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Cast"-i`ron adjective

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1. Made of cast iron. Hence, Fig.: like cast iron; hardy; unyielding.

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• noun evergreen perennial with large handsome basal leaves; grown primarily as a foliage houseplant
  aspidistra; Aspidistra elatio; bar-room plant.
  

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• (Arch.), an iron bar or beam having a section resembling a flat gutter or channel.

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• a light calking iron.

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• noun an iron spike attached to the shoe to prevent slipping on ice when walking or climbing
  climber; crampoon; crampon.
  

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• noun usually galvanized sheet iron or sheet steel shaped into straight parallel ridges and hollows
  

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• sheet iron bent into a series of alternate ridges and grooves in parallel lines, giving it greater stiffness.

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• noun a strip of metal with ends bent at right angles; used to hold masonry together
  cramp.
  

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Cramp" i`ron

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1. See Cramp, n., 2.

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• . (a) An iron instrument for crimping and curling the hair. (b) A crimping machine.

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• an instrument by which hair or any textile fabric is crisped.

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• noun a cylindrical metal home appliance that heats a lock of hair that has been curled around it
  

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• an instrument for curling the hair; commonly heated when used.

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• metal formed of thin bars or wires of iron and steel elaborately twisted and welded together; used for making gun barrels, etc., of high quality, in which the surface, when polished and acted upon by acid, has a damasc appearance.

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• . See Malleable iron.

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• noun an allotrope of iron that is stable between 1403 degrees centigrade and the melting point (= 1532 degrees)
  

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• noun metal supports for logs in a fireplace
  andiron; firedog; dog.
  
  • the andirons were too hot to touch

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• noun (golf) the long iron with the most nearly vertical face
  driving iron.
  

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• iron, in bars or masses, manufactured from fagots.

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• noun metal fireside implements
  fire iron.
  

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• noun metal fireside implements
  fire iron.
  

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• utensils for a fireplace or grate, as tongs, poker, and shovel.

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• an instrument used in cauterizing.

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• noun middle-distance iron
  mashie.
  

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• a laundry iron for fluting ruffles; called also Italian iron, or gaufering iron. Knight.

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• . (a) The step of a carriage. (b) A fetter.

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• noun iron that is coated with zinc to protect it from rust
  

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• formerly, iron coated with zink by electrical deposition; now more commonly, iron coated with zink by plunging into a bath of melted zink, after its surface has been cleaned by friction with the aid of dilute acid.

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• noun a nonmagnetic allotrope of iron that is the basis of austenite; stable between 906 and 1403 degrees centigrade
  

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• noun an iron used to press pleats and ridges
  goffer; gauffering iron; gauffer.
  

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• a kind of fluting iron for fabrics.

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• noun an iron used to press pleats and ridges
  goffer; gauffering iron; gauffer.
  

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• noun a tool consisting of several hooks for grasping and holding; often thrown with a rope
  grappling hook; grapnel; grapple; grappler.
  

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• a hooked iron used for grappling and holding fast a vessel or other object.

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• . See Cast iron (above).

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• . See under Fire, n.

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• (Min.) dufrenite.

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Gro"zing i"ron

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1. A tool with a hardened steel point, formerly used instead of a diamond for cutting glass.
2. (Plumbing) A tool for smoothing the solder joints of lead pipe. Knight.

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Harp"ing i`ron

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1. A harpoon. Evelyn.

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• a calking iron.

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• iron in thin narrow strips, used for making hoops.

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• (Naut.), a large calking iron.

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• noun iron of high purity
  

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• . See Decarbonized steel, under Decarbonize.

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• noun (archeology) the period following the Bronze Age; characterized by rapid spread of iron tools and weapons
  
• noun (classical mythology) the last and worst age of the world
  

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• . (a) (Myth.) The age following the golden, silver, and bronze ages, and characterized by a general degeneration of talent and virtue, and of literary excellence. In Roman literature the Iron Age is commonly regarded as beginning after the taking of Rome by the Goths, A. D. 410. (b) (Archæol.) That stage in the development of any people characterized by the use of iron implements in the place of the more cumbrous stone and bronze.

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• noun slightly purplish or bluish dark grey
  Davy's grey; steel grey; Davy's gray; steel gray.
  
• noun any of various blue pigments
  Prussian blue.
  

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• noun an instrument of torture that is used to heat or crush the foot and leg
  the boot; iron boot; boot.
  

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• noun a cage from which there is no escape
  

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• noun a chemical compound that is a constituent of steel and cast iron; very hard and brittle
  cementite.
  

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• a cement for joints, composed of cast-iron borings or filings, sal ammoniac, etc.

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• noun German statesman under whose leadership Germany was united (1815-1898)
  Otto von Bismarck; Bismarck; Prince Otto Eduard Leopold von Bismarck; von Bismarck; Prince Otto von Bismarck.
  

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• (Min.), a yellowish clay containing a large proportion of an ore of iron.

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• noun an instrument of execution for execution by strangulation
  garrotte; garrote; garotte.
  

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• a Prussian order of military merit; also, the decoration of the order.

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• a golden crown set with jewels, belonging originally to the Lombard kings, and indicating the dominion of Italy. It was so called from containing a circle said to have been forged from one of the nails in the cross of Christ.

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• noun an impenetrable barrier to communication or information especially as imposed by rigid censorship and secrecy; used by Winston Churchill in 1946 to describe the demarcation between democratic and communist countries
  

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• noun a form of anemia due to lack of iron in the diet or to iron loss as a result of chronic bleeding
  iron deficiency anaemia.
  

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• noun a form of anemia due to lack of iron in the diet or to iron loss as a result of chronic bleeding
  iron deficiency anaemia.
  

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• noun a compound containing two atoms of sulfur combined with iron
  

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• noun British general and statesman; he defeated Napoleon at Waterloo; subsequently served as Prime Minister (1769-1852)
  First Duke of Wellington; Duke of Wellington; Wellington; Arthur Wellesley.
  

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• noun a fragment of iron rubbed off by the use of a file
  

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• noun rigorous or ruthless control
  
  • she rules the office with an iron fist
  • it takes an iron fist to contain the dissenting factions

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• (Min.), an opaque, flintlike, ferruginous variety of quartz.

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• a maker of iron castings.

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• noun a foundry where cast iron is produced
  

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• the place where iron castings are made.

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• a furnace for reducing iron from the ore, or for melting iron for castings, etc.; a forge; a reverberatory; a bloomery.

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• (Min.), hematite.

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• a headpiece of iron or steel, shaped like a hat with a broad brim, and used as armor during the Middle Ages.

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• noun an instrument of torture that is used to heat or crush the foot and leg
  the boot; iron boot; boot.
  

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• noun (c. 1840) an early term for a locomotive
  

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• a locomotive engine. Colloq.
• a locomotive. Colloq.

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• noun British stateswoman; first woman to serve as Prime Minister (born in 1925)
  Margaret Thatcher; Margaret Hilda Thatcher; Baroness Thatcher of Kesteven; Thatcher.
  

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• a solution of an iron salt, used as a mordant by dyers.

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• noun respirator that produces alternations in air pressure in a chamber surrounding a patient's chest to force air into and out of the lungs thus providing artificial respiration
  

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• noun instrument of torture consisting of a hollow iron frame shaped like the human body and lined with spikes to impale the victim
  

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• noun a strong man of exceptional physical endurance
  ironman.
  

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• (Cotton Manuf.), a name for the self-acting spinning mule.

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• noun a mineral consisting of iron and manganese tungstate in crystalline form; the principal ore of tungsten; found in quartz veins associated with granitic rocks
  wolframite.
  

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• noun a spot caused the staining with rust or ink
  iron mold.
  

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• a yellow spot on cloth stained by rusty iron.

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• noun a spot caused the staining with rust or ink
  iron mold.
  

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• noun small deciduous tree of eastern and central United States having dark green lyrate pinnatifid leaves and tough moisture-resistant wood used especially for fence posts
  post oak; box white oak; brash oak; Quercus stellata.
  
• noun medium-sized evergreen of southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico with oblong leathery often spiny-edged leaves
  canyon oak; maul oak; canyon live oak; Quercus chrysolepis.
  

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• noun an ore from which iron can be extracted
  

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• (Min.), any native compound of iron from which the metal may be profitably extracted. The principal ores are magnetite, hematite, siderite, limonite, Göthite, turgite, and the bog and clay iron ores.

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• verb settle or put right
  straighten out; put right.
  
  • we need to iron out our disagreements
• verb press and smooth with a heated iron
  press; iron.
  
  • press your shirts
  • she stood there ironing

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• noun pathology in which iron accumulates in the tissues; characterized by bronzed skin and enlarged liver and diabetes mellitus and abnormalities of the pancreas and the joints
  bronzed diabetes; iron overload; hemochromatosis.
  

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• noun a highly toxic chemical used to engrave metal plates and electronic circuits
  

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• noun a cement resembling putty; made by mixing ferric oxide and boiled linseed oil; is acid resistant
  

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• noun a common mineral (iron disulfide) that has a pale yellow color
  fool's gold; pyrite; iron pyrite.
  

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• noun a common mineral (iron disulfide) that has a pale yellow color
  fool's gold; pyrite; iron pyrite.
  

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• (Min.), common pyrites, or pyrite. See Pyrites.

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• an iron ore in grains, usually the magnetic iron ore, formerly used to sand paper after writing.

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• the thin film which on the surface of wrought iron in the process of forging. It consists essentially of the magnetic oxide of iron, Fe3O4>.

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• noun a trap from which there is no escape
  

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• noun a small slow-growing deciduous tree of northern Iran having a low domed shape
  iron tree; ironwood; ironwood tree.
  

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• a furnace where iron is smelted, or a forge, rolling mill, or foundry, where it is made into heavy work, such as shafting, rails, cannon, merchant bar, etc.

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I"ron-cased` adjective

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1. Cased or covered with iron, as a vessel; ironclad.

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I"ron-fist`ed adjective

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1. Closefisted; stingy; mean.

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• noun the color of freshly broken cast iron
  iron-gray.
  
• adjective satellite of the grey color of iron
  iron-gray.
  

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I"ron-gray` adjective

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1. Of a gray color, somewhat resembling that of iron freshly broken. -- n. An iron-gray color; also, a horse of this color.

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• noun the color of freshly broken cast iron
  iron-gray.
  
• adjective satellite of the grey color of iron
  iron-gray.
  

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I"ron-heart`ed adjective

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1. Hard-hearted; unfeeling; cruel; as, an iron-hearted master. Cowper.

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I"ron-sick` adjective

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1. (Naut.) Having the ironwork loose or corroded; -- said of a ship when her bolts and nails are so eaten with rust that she has become leaky.

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I"ron-sid`ed adjective

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1. Having iron sides, or very firm sides.

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• noun pathology in which iron accumulates in the tissues; characterized by bronzed skin and enlarged liver and diabetes mellitus and abnormalities of the pancreas and the joints
  bronzed diabetes; iron overload; hemochromatosis.
  

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• noun a small slow-growing deciduous tree of northern Iran having a low domed shape
  iron tree; ironwood; ironwood tree.
  

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• noun narrow padded board on collapsible supports; used for ironing clothes
  

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• (Naut.), said of a sailing vessel, when, in tacking, she comes up head to the wind and will not fill away on either tack.

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• a heater for fluting frills.

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• a wheel with a zigzag or jagged edge for cutting cakes or pastry into ornamental figures.

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• a candlestick. Obs.

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• a kind of harpoon with a detachable head of peculiar shape, used in capturing swordfish.

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• noun an iron with a long shaft and a steep face; for hitting long low shots
  

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• . See Magnetite.

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• . (Min.) Same as Magnetite.

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• noun an oxide of iron that is strongly attracted by magnets
  magnetite.
  

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Mak"ing-i`ron noun

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1. A tool somewhat like a chisel with a groove in it, used by calkers of ships to finish the seams after the oakum has been driven in.

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• (Metal.), iron sufficiently pure or soft to be capable of extension under the hammer; also, specif., a kind of iron produced by removing a portion of the carbon or other impurities from cast iron, rendering it less brittle, and to some extent malleable.

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• articles cast from pig iron and made malleable by heating then for several days in the presence of some substance, as hematite, which deprives the cast iron of some of its carbon.

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• (Naut.), the tool with which old oakum is picked out of a vessel's seams.

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• certain common sizes of wrought iron and steel bars.

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• iron in the state of the metal, as distinquished from its ores, as magnetic iron.

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• (Chem.), iron forming a large, and often the chief, ingredient of meteorites. It invariably contains a small amount of nickel and cobalt. Cf. Meteorite.

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• . (Min.) See Meteorite.

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• crude puddled iron ready for the squeezer or rollers. Knight.

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• noun cast iron to which nickel has been added to make it resist abrasion
  Ni-hard.
  

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• noun cast iron consisting of graphite in a matrix of austenite
  Ni-resist.
  

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• noun a storage battery having a nickel oxide cathode and an iron anode with an electrolyte of potassium hydroxide; each cell gives about 1.2 volts
  nickel-iron accumulator.
  

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• noun a storage battery having a nickel oxide cathode and an iron anode with an electrolyte of potassium hydroxide; each cell gives about 1.2 volts
  nickel-iron accumulator.
  

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• noun an iron with considerable loft
  niblick.
  

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• (Min.), magnetite.

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• noun (golf) the long iron with the most nearly vertical face
  driving iron.
  

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• (Chem.), iron which has been subjected to the action of heat, of strong nitric acid, chlorine, etc. It is then not easily acted upon by acids.

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• noun crude iron tapped from a blast furnace
  

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• the form in which cast iron is made at the blast furnace, being run into molds, called pigs.
• cast iron in pigs, or oblong blocks or bars, as it comes from the smelting furnace. See Pig, 4.

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• . (a) An instrument for scalloping the edges of ribbons, flounces, etc . (b) A sword . Colloq.

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• the cutting chisel of a joiner's plane.

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• noun a plate of iron
  

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• wrought iron plates.

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• an iron burnisher; esp., a small smoothing iron used in laundries.

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• noun the iron normally used on the putting green
  putter.
  

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• (Chem.), finely reduced iron, which ignites spontaneously on contact with air.

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• a tool for removing old oakum and pitch from the seams of a vessel.

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• (Chem.), metallic iron obtained through deoxidation of an oxide of iron by exposure to a current of hydrogen or other reducing agent. When hydrogen is used the product is called also iron by hydrogen.

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• (Naut.), an iron chisel for reeming the seams of planks in calking ships.

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• (Min.) See Hematite.

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• . (Shipbuilding) Same as Ravehook.

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• an iron guard on a wagon body, against which a wheel rubs when cramped too much.

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• a kind of sheet iron made in Russia, having a lustrous blue-black surface.

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• a superior quality of Russia iron; so called because originally stamped with the figure of a sable.

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• (Surg.), an instrument used in scraping foul and carious bones; a raspatory.

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• noun iron to be melted again and reworked
  

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• . (a) Cuttings and waste pieces of wrought iron from which bar iron or forgings can be made; called also wrought-iron scrap. (b) Fragments of cast iron or defective castings suitable for remelting in the foundry; called also founding scrap, or cast scrap.

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• an iron-pointed instrument for scribing, or marking, casks and logs.

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• noun a hot iron used to destroy tissue
  

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• noun iron with a lofted face for hitting high shots to the green
  mashie niblick.
  

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• noun plate iron thinner than tank iron
  

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• noun a firearm that is held and fired with one hand
  side arm; pistol; handgun.
  

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• a firearm. Slang, U.S.

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• noun an iron with a short shaft and pitched face; for hitting short high shots
  

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• (Metal.), a peculiar light-gray fine-grained cast iron, usually obtained from clay iron ore.

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• noun home appliance consisting of a flat metal base that is heated and used to smooth cloth
  iron.
  

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• an iron instrument with a polished face, for smoothing clothes; a sadiron; a flatiron.

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• a tool with a long beak, used in the process of snarling. When one end is held in a vise, and the shank is struck with a hammer, the repercussion of the other end, or beak, within the article worked upon gives the requisite blow for producing raised work. See 1st Snarl.

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• noun a hand tool with a heatable tip; used to melt and apply solder
  

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• an instrument for soldering, consisting of a bit or bolt of copper having a pointed or wedge-shaped end, and furnished with a handle.

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• (Naut.), a special kind of harpoon, usually secured just below the gunwale of a whaleboat.

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• (Min.), siderite. See Siderite (a).

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• (Min.), siderite. See Siderite (a).

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• . See Hematite.
• . (Min.) See Hematite.

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• noun pig iron containing manganese; used as a deoxidizing agent and to raise the manganese content in making steel
  spiegeleisen; spiegel.
  

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Spie"gel i`ron

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1. (Metal.) A fusible white cast iron containing a large amount of carbon (from three and a half to six per cent) and some manganese. When the manganese reaches twenty-five per cent and upwards it has a granular structure, and constitutes the alloy ferro manganese, largely used in the manufacture of Bessemer steel. Called also specular pig iron, spiegel, and spiegeleisen.

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• noun a pressing iron that can emit steam
  

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• a compound of iron containing less than one half of one per cent of carbon.

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• noun support consisting of metal loops into which rider's feet go
  stirrup.
  

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• an iron stirrup.

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• noun plate iron that is thinner than tank iron
  

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• noun iron that has been cast or worked in structural shapes
  

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• iron made from stub nails, or old horseshoe nails, used in making gun barrels.

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• a kind of knife, or a piece of iron, used to scrape off sweat, especially from horses; a horse scraper.

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• noun wrought iron of high purity made in Sweden
  

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T" i`ron

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1. See under T.

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• an iron rod for beating down the earthy substance in tamping for blasting.

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• noun plate iron that is thinner than boilerplate but thicker than sheet iron or stovepipe iron
  

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• plate iron thinner than boiler plate, and thicker than sheet iron or stovepipe iron.

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Tee" i`ron

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1. See T iron, under T.

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• noun hand tool consisting of a lever that is used to force the casing of a pneumatic tire onto a steel wheel
  tire tool.
  

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• . (Min.) See Menaccanite.

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• to set so as to take off a thick shaving. Moxon.

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• a harpoon with a pivoted crosspiece in a mortise near the point to prevent it from being drawn out when a whale, shark, or other animal, is harpooned.

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• too many objects requiring the attention at once.

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• noun a small lightweight iron that can be carried while traveling
  

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Tue"-i`ron noun

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1. See Tuyère.

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Tue"-i`rons noun plural

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1. A pair of blacksmith's tongs.

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• an iron hook or button to which a tug or trace may be attached, as on the shaft of a wagon.

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• an implement for cutting, and paring off, turf.

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• noun long iron with a nearly vertical face
  midiron.
  

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• (Cookery), a pincher-shaped contrivance, having flat plates, or blades, between which wafers are baked.

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• noun a kitchen appliance for baking waffles; the appliance usually consists of two indented metal pans hinged together so that they create a pattern on the waffle
  

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• an iron utensil or mold made in two parts shutting together, used for cooking waffles over a fire.

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• . See Weeding fork, above.

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• . (a) Thin sheets of iron coated with tin; tinned iron. (b) A hard, silvery-white cast iron containing a large proportion of combined carbon.
• . See Cast iron (above).

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• (Min.), marcasite.
• orthorhombic iron disulphide; marcasite. This includes cockscomb pyrites (a variety of marcasite, named in allusion to its form), spear pyrites, etc.

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• wire rods of iron.

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• noun iron having a low carbon content that is tough and malleable and so can be forged and welded
  

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• (Metal.), the purest form of iron commonly known in the arts, containing only about half of one per cent of carbon. It is made either directly from the ore, as in the Catalan forge or bloomery, or by purifying (puddling) cast iron in a reverberatory furnace or refinery. It is tough, malleable, and ductile. When formed into bars, it is called bar iron.

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