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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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"Iron" Quotes from Famous Books

... ice bobbed under as soon as he touched them, or turned up on edge; but Pelle came and slid by with a touch, flung himself to one side with lightning rapidity, and changed his aim in the middle of a leap like a cat. It was like a dance on red-hot iron, so quickly did he pick up his feet, and spring from one place to another. The water spurted up from the pieces of ice as he touched them, and behind him stretched a crooked track of disturbed ice ...

— Pelle the Conqueror, Complete • Martin Andersen Nexo

... I will converse with iron-witted fools, With unrespective boys: none are for me, Who look into me with considerate eyes. ...

— Tales • George Crabbe

... is indicated an influence exerted by Purusha on Prakriti, and this, where material objects are concerned, would be brought about by their propinquity. If a magnet be brought near to a piece of soft iron or an electrified body be brought near to a neutral one, certain changes are wrought in the soft iron or in the neutral body by that bringing near. The propinquity of the magnet makes the soft iron a magnet; the qualities of the magnet are produced in ...

— An Introduction to Yoga • Annie Besant

... raised on the plantation. The younger slaves had to "swingle it" with a wooden instrument, somewhat like a sword, about two feet long, and called a swingler. The hemp was hackled by the older slaves. The hackle was an instrument made of iron teeth, about four inches long, one-half inch apart and set in a wooden plank one and one-half feet long, which was set on a heavy bench. The hemp stalks were laid on these benches and hackled herds were then pulled through and heaped in piles and taken to the work shops where it was twisted and tied ...

— Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States - From Interviews with Former Slaves - Kentucky Narratives • Works Projects Administration

... than done; for in a blink Was heard the anvil's clink, The sparks flew from the blacksmith's fire Higher and still higher! The forgeman struck the molten iron dead, Hammer in hand, as if he had a hundred in ...

— Jasmin: Barber, Poet, Philanthropist • Samuel Smiles

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