The Collaborative International Dictionary
Iron \I"ron\ ([imac]"[u^]rn), a. [AS. [=i]ren, [=i]sen. See Iron, n.]
Of, or made of iron; consisting of iron; as, an iron bar, dust.
Resembling iron in color; as, iron blackness.
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Like iron in hardness, strength, impenetrability, power of endurance, insensibility, etc.; as:
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Rude; hard; harsh; severe.
Iron years of wars and dangers.
--Rowe.Jove crushed the nations with an iron rod.
--Pope. Firm; robust; enduring; as, an iron constitution.
Inflexible; unrelenting; as, an iron will.
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Not to be broken; holding or binding fast; tenacious. ``Him death's iron sleep oppressed.'' --Philips. Note: Iron is often used in composition, denoting made of iron, relating to iron, of or with iron; producing iron, etc.; resembling iron, literally or figuratively, in some of its properties or characteristics; as, iron-shod, iron-sheathed, iron-fisted, iron-framed, iron-handed, iron-hearted, iron foundry or iron-foundry. Iron age.
(Myth.) The age following the golden, silver, and bronze ages, and characterized by a general degeneration of talent and virtue, and of literary excellence. In Roman literature the Iron Age is commonly regarded as beginning after the taking of Rome by the Goths, A. D. 410.
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(Arch[ae]ol.) That stage in the development of any people characterized by the use of iron implements in the place of the more cumbrous stone and bronze.
Iron cement, a cement for joints, composed of cast-iron borings or filings, sal ammoniac, etc.
Iron clay (Min.), a yellowish clay containing a large proportion of an ore of iron.
Iron cross, a German, and before that Prussian, order of military merit; also, the decoration of the order.
Iron crown, a golden crown set with jewels, belonging originally to the Lombard kings, and indicating the dominion of Italy. It was so called from containing a circle said to have been forged from one of the nails in the cross of Christ.
Iron flint (Min.), an opaque, flintlike, ferruginous variety of quartz.
Iron founder, a maker of iron castings.
Iron foundry, the place where iron castings are made.
Iron furnace, a furnace for reducing iron from the ore, or for melting iron for castings, etc.; a forge; a reverberatory; a bloomery.
Iron glance (Min.), hematite.
Iron hat, a headpiece of iron or steel, shaped like a hat with a broad brim, and used as armor during the Middle Ages.
Iron horse, a locomotive engine. [Colloq.]
Iron liquor, a solution of an iron salt, used as a mordant by dyers.
Iron man (Cotton Manuf.), a name for the self-acting spinning mule.
Iron mold or Iron mould, a yellow spot on cloth stained by rusty iron.
Iron ore (Min.), any native compound of iron from which the metal may be profitably extracted. The principal ores are magnetite, hematite, siderite, limonite, G["o]thite, turgite, and the bog and clay iron ores.
Iron pyrites (Min.), common pyrites, or pyrite. See Pyrites.
Iron sand, an iron ore in grains, usually the magnetic iron ore, formerly used to sand paper after writing.
Iron scale, the thin film which forms on the surface of wrought iron in the process of forging. It consists essentially of the magnetic oxide of iron, Fe3O4.
Iron works, a furnace where iron is smelted, or a forge, rolling mill, or foundry, where it is made into heavy work, such as shafting, rails, cannon, merchant bar, etc.
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Iron works \I"ron works`\ See under Iron, a.
Wikipedia
Iron Works may refer to:
- Clay City, Kentucky, known as Iron Works during the early 19th century
- Iron Works, the label that produced Liege Lord
Usage examples of "iron works".
Schneider, of the Creusot Iron Works in France, called at the Patricroft works together with his practical mechanic M.
The soil there was known to be full of coal and ironstone, and several small iron works had for some time been carried on, which were supposed to be doing well.
After many years of perseverance, he was, however, at length enabled to work out his plan into a definite shape at the Clyde Iron Works, and its practical value was at once admitted.
Powle's account of the Iron Works in the Forest of Dean (1677-8), in the Philosophical Transactions, vol.
A hand-powered version forged mainly by Hegl has already been delivered to the iron works for Korbow.
He built a successful career as an engineer and did a master's degree at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology after being employed in an iron works in Toronto for a year in the mid-1950s.
Suddenly a noise, like iron works violently pushed aside, came from the interior of the boat.
The iron works was already operating, the dull thudding hammering rumbling into the street with the acrid odor of hot metal.
The big draft horses carted vast tonnages of export goods to the docks for shipment across the face of the world, and brought out staggering amounts of raw lumber and bales of cotton arriving from foreign shores, huge bundles of animal hides and fur for the leather and garment industries, ingots of pig iron and copper and tin for the smelting plants and iron works which belched their stinking smoke into Whitechapel's skies.