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iron

/ˈaɪ.ɚn/ nom B1

En français : fer, de fer

  1. A common, inexpensive metal, silvery grey when untarnished, that rusts, is attracted by magnets, and is used in making steel: a chemical element having atomic number 26 and symbol Fe. (uncountable) · Today we studied about metals — including iron — at school.
  2. Any material, not a steel, predominantly made of elemental iron. (countable, uncountable)
  3. A tool or appliance made of metal, which is heated and then used to transfer heat to something else; most often a thick piece of metal fitted with a handle and having a flat, roughly triangular bottom, which is heated and used to press wrinkles from clothing, and now usually containing an electrical heating apparatus. (countable)
  4. Any of several other tools traditionally made of wrought iron, now usually of steel. (countable, uncountable)
  5. Shackles. (countable, uncountable)
  6. A firearm, either a long gun or a handgun. (countable, slang, uncountable) · It's many niggas now totin' iron.
  7. A dark shade of the color silver. (uncountable)
  8. A male homosexual. (countable, slang)

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While she was trying to fix on one, the cook took the cauldron of soup off the fire, and at once set to work throwing everything within her reach at the Duchess and the baby—the fire-irons came first; then followed a shower of saucepans, plates, and dishes.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, p. 42 · B2
“The iron—I mean the rabbit came off the fire about that time.
Six stories from The Four Million, p. 6 · C1
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.
Six stories from The Four Million, p. 7 · C1
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.
Six stories from The Four Million, p. 7 · C1

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