Iron

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• Iron

  ·noun Rude; hard; harsh; severe. II. Iron ·noun Fetters; chains; handcuffs; manacles. III. Iron ·n...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• iron

  Money in general. To polish the king's iron with one's eyebrows; to look out of grated or prison win...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• Iron

  is mentioned with brass as the earliest of known metals. (Genesis 4:22) The natural wealth in iron o...

  William Smith's Bible Dictionary

• Bar iron

  ·- ·see under <<Iron>>. ...

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• Box-iron

  ·noun A hollow smoothing iron containing a heater within. ...

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• Brand iron

  ·- A branding iron. II. Brand iron ·- A trivet to set a pot on. III. Brand iron ·- The horizontal ...

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• Branding iron

  ·- An iron to brand with. ...

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• Bridle iron

  ·- A strong flat bar of iron, so bent as to support, as in a stirrup, one end of a floor timber, ·et...

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• Cast iron

  ·- Highly carbonized iron, the direct product of the blast furnace; — used for making castings, and...

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• Cast-iron

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

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• Cramp iron

  ·- ·see <<Cramp>>, ·noun, 2. ...

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• Grozing iron

  ·- A tool for smoothing the solder joints of lead pipe. II. Grozing iron ·- A tool with a hardened ...

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• Harping iron

  ·- A <<Harpoon>>. ...

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• Iron works

  ·- ·see under Iron, ·adj. ...

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• Iron-cased

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

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• Iron-fisted

  ·adj Closefisted; stingy; mean. ...

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• Iron-gray

  ·noun An iron-gray color; also, a horse of this color. II. Iron-gray ·adj Of a gray color, somewhat...

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• Iron-hearted

  ·adj Hard-hearted; unfeeling; cruel; as, an iron-hearted master. ...

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• Iron-sick

  ·adj Having the ironwork loose or corroded; — said of a ship when her bolts and nails are so eaten ...

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• Iron-sided

  ·adj Having iron sides, or very firm sides. ...

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• Lofting iron

  ·add. ·- ·same·as <<Lofter>>. ...

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• Making-iron

  ·noun A tool somewhat like a chisel with a groove in it, used by calkers of ships to finish the seam...

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• Spiegel iron

  ·- A fusible white cast iron containing a large amount of carbon (from three and a half to six per c...

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• T iron

  ·- ·see under <<T>>. ...

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• Tee iron

  ·- ·see T iron, under <<T>>. ...

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• Tue-iron

  ·noun ·see <<Tuyere>>. ...

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• Iron Wharf

  South out of Upper Thames Street to the Thames on the boundary of Farringdon Ward Within and Castle ...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• cold iron

  A sword, or any other weapon for cutting or stabbing. I gave him two inches of cold iron into his be...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• split iron

  The nick-name for a smith. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• toasting iron

  A sword. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• iron hand

  a term of Victorian politics. It was a new Standing Order introducing what has since been called the...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• shooting iron

  A common Western term for a rifle, or fowling piece. ...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• talking-iron

  A comical name for a gun or rifle; called also a shooting-iron. I hops out of bed, feels for my tru...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• waffle-iron

  (Dutch wafelyzen.) A wafer-iron; a utensil for baking waffles. ...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• chinsing-iron

  A caulker's tool for chinsing seams with. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• horsing-iron

  An iron fixed in a withy handle, sometimes only lashed to a stick or tree-nail, and used with a beet...

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• iron-bound

  A coast where the shores are composed of rocks which mostly rise perpendicularly from the sea, and h...

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• iron-clad, cased, coated

  , or plated vessel. One covered entirely, or in special parts, with iron plates intended to resist...

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• iron garters

  A cant word for bilboes, or fetters. ...

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• iron-horse

  The iron rail of the head; the horse of the fore-sheet or boom-sheet traveller. ...

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• iron-sick

  The condition of vessels when the iron work becomes loose in the timbers from corrosion by gallic ac...

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• iron-sides

  Formerly a sobriquet for favourite veteran men-of-war, but latterly applied to iron and iron-clad sh...

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• iron wedges

  Tapered iron wedges on the well-known mechanical principle, for splitting out blocks and for other s...

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• iron-work

  A general name for all pieces of iron, of whatever figure or size, which are used in the constructio...

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• making iron

  One of the caulker's tools; it has a groove in it, and is used after the caulking iron to finish off...

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• meaking iron

  The tool used by caulkers to run old oakum out of the seams before inserting new. ...

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• pig-iron

  (See sow.) An oblong mass of cast-iron used for ballast; there are also pigs of lead. "A nodding b...

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• point iron

  A large sort of plumb for the nice adjustment of perpendicularity for a given line. ...

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• rasing-iron

  A tool for clearing the pitch and oakum out of the seams, previous to their being caulked afresh. ...

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• reeming-iron

  The larger iron used by caulkers in opening the seams. ...

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• ripping-iron

  A caulker's tool for tearing oakum out of a seam, or stripping copper or sheathing from a ship's bot...

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• tee-iron

  An instrument for drawing the lower box in the barrel of a pump. T-shaped clamp, knee, or other piec...

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• traveller-iron

  To a cutter's fore-sail, boom-mainsail, or spanker-boom; generally termed traveller horse. (See hors...

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• Falkirk Iron Warehouse

  On the south side of Thames Street in O.S. 1880. In Vintry Ward. It occupied part of the site of Sh...

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• iron-bound blocks

  Those which are fitted with iron strops. ...

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• iron-plated ships

  See armour-clad. ...

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• Mr. Hood's Iron Wharf

  See Iron Wharf. ...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.