Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Branding iron \Brand"ing i`*ron\ An iron to brand with.
Wiktionary
n. A piece of metal bent into a distinctive shape, heated and used to brand livestock.
WordNet
n. implement used to brand live stock [syn: iron]
Wikipedia
A branding iron is used for branding, pressing a heated metal shape against an object or livestock with the intention of leaving a mark.
Branding iron or Branding Iron can refer to:
- Branding iron, a tool which uses the process of pressing a heated metal shape against an object or livestock with the intention of leaving a mark.
- The Branding Iron, a student newspaper at the University of Wyoming in Laramie, Wyoming.
- The Branding Iron, a student newspaper at Jefferson High School (El Paso, Texas).
- The Branding Iron, a 1920 film starring Barbara Castleton.
Usage examples of "branding iron".
He would ride in dusty and tired, his hands stiff from the rope or the branding iron, from twenty hours of work in a single day, but he had the smell of horses and woodsmoke about him.
Ladder Walker had released the calf he had been branding and was now standing upright, branding iron in his left hand.
Fleetingly, she noticed the brazier smouldering in the far corner, a long branding iron protruding from the incandescence.
But we do it gladly, because we are marching in Christ's army, sir, and we will not lay down our weapons until the last shackle is broken, the last branding iron smashed, the last raw-hide whip burned, and the last slave free!
The marks made by the branding iron, about three inches in height and half that in width, had been burned into the flesh as though by a gouging tool, and were almost half an inch deep: the lightest stroke of the finger revealed them.
Alisande had picked up the branding iron and was swinging it tentatively.
I think that knowing you're not your own man, that you belong to me, will mark you more than I could ever do with a branding iron.
He passed within two bodies of Elizabeth, carrying a branding iron, a bag of something, and an aura of grim purpose.