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iron
Part of speech: NounA metallic element; the most common and useful of the metals; an instrument made of iron, especially one to smooth clothes by heat; anything especially hard; in golf, a club made of iron.
Part of speech: AdjectivePertaining to, resembling, or made of, iron.
Part of speech: VerbTo smooth with an iron; furnish with iron; chain.
Usage examples "iron":- The foreman said it was the end of the old pipe, and there was a place near his house where they could put a long iron thing into the ground, down as far as the pipes, and turn it and let the water into this pipe. - "The Doers", William John Hopkins.
- But Ernestine would not have let hot iron force the words through her lips.... - "One Woman's Life", Robert Herrick.
- The iron horse brought from the East men and women and children, who took the land from the Indians and drove out the game. - "An Autobiography of Buffalo Bill (Colonel W. F. Cody)", Buffalo Bill (William Frederick Cody).