What is "castiron"

Usage examples of "castiron".

Into Berkeley Square, where a small steamcrane, chugging gamely between a pair of splintered planetrees, swung a great castiron ball into a crumbling Georgian facade.

Mallory peered through his tears at the building across the street, at the neatly enameled castiron sign on its corner.

McNeile maintained that the castiron body of a porcelain tub confused the spine's natural attempts to return to its correct magnetic polarity.

Helen America remarked, as they arranged their trays on a ridiculously small castiron table.

Every few days you hike up to the maple grove, collect the contents of the pails in big white plastic buckets, and dump the buckets into the big castiron sap pot.

Mter the way he won at Sandown," remarked one of the sheepskin coats, he must be a castiron certainty.

They sat on scrolly castiron stools at a marble counter in a little booth, where a girl Bobby’s age, her hair dyed and lacquered into a kind of dorsal fin, worked the knobs and levers of a big old machine with brass tanks and domes and burners and eagles with spread chrome wings.

The road had been barricaded, and there were more police armed with batons and sjamboks, those long black whips of hippohide, being held in reserve further up the road in front of the fence of castiron palings which protected the Parliament building.