iron
/ˈaɪ.ɚn/ adjective C2- Made of the metal iron.
- Strong (as of will), inflexible. · She had an iron will.· He held on with an iron grip.
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“The iron—I mean the rabbit came off the fire about that time.
And when a girl in the laundry set down a hot iron on my hand this afternoon I was all the way home making up that story about the Welsh rabbit.
And I wouldn’t have then, only I sent up this cotton waste and oil from the engine-room this afternoon for a girl upstairs who had her hand burned with a smoothing-iron.
One iron was heating on a small gas stove; the other was being pushed vigorously back and forth to make the desirable crease that would be seen later on extending in straight lines from Mr.
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