Iron

(noun.) home appliance consisting of a flat metal base that is heated and used to smooth cloth.

(noun.) a golf club that has a relatively narrow metal head.

(noun.) implement used to brand live stock.

(noun.) a heavy ductile magnetic metallic element; is silver-white in pure form but readily rusts; used in construction and tools and armament; plays a role in the transport of oxygen by the blood.

(verb.) press and smooth with a heated iron; 'press your shirts'; 'she stood there ironing'.

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• Seest thou, Isaac, said Front-de-Boeuf, the range of iron bars above the glowing charcoal? 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• When the iron parts with its carbon it loses its fluidity and becomes plastic and coherent, and is formed into balls called _blooms_. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• The first cast-iron lighthouse was put up at Point Morant, Jamaica, in 1842. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• So, he sat down at the foot of his little iron bedstead, and began to wonder how much a year the warder made out of the dirty room. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• There were villas with iron fences and big overgrown gardens and ditches with water flowing and green vegetable gardens with dust on the leaves. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
• As soon as the current flows, the coils become magnetic and attract the soft iron armature, drawing it forward and causing the clapper to strike the bell. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• Small elevated tanks, like those of the windmill, frequently have heavy iron bands around their lower portion as a protection against the extra strain. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• I was put in irons, brought to trial again, and sent for life. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• And but for his illness he would have been put in irons, for he was regarded as a determined prison-breaker, and I know not what else. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• I remember Mr. Cheshire, with his irons, trying to make people straight when the Almighty had made them crooked. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Hall had thick steel plates dovetailed together; and angle irons tenoned at the corners. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Gladiators who objected to fight for any reason were driven on by whips and hot irons. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Bartholomew Irons--to the disappointment of the irregular prelate. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Heat the irons; with my own hands I shall burn the eyes from his head that he may not pollute my person with his vile gaze. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
• The articles to be ironed are placed in proper position upon a table and carried under and in contact with the rolls. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Cribbed and barred and moored by massive rusty chains, the prison-ship seemed in my young eyes to be ironed like the prisoners. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• The polishing is not necessarily done the same day they are ironed. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
• If your time is limited, or your work interrupted by callers or other duties, lay them aside after having ironed them perfectly dry. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
• After the hides are thoroughly dried they are then oiled and ironed by large rollers having several hundred pounds pressure. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Or the goods are ironed between a heated cylinder and a revolving drum covered with felting, and the polishing effected by the cylinder revolving faster than the drum. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Ingenious forms of hand-operated ironing machines for turning over and ironing the edges of collars, and other articles, are in successful use. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• I can do dress-making very well; and I understand fine washing and ironing; and between us we can find something to live on. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• The heat generated for ironing, for instance, is all utilized. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• It was both baking and ironing day at the rectory, she remembered--Fanny would be busy. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• If the bosom has pleats raise them before ironing dry and dry under them. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
• I don't mind ironing, or any kind of work, for you and papa. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• All these young ladies wanted ironing, and all had a curious way of looking everywhere while they chattered. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.

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