Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A smoothing-iron containing an inclosed space for live coals to keep it hot.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A hollow smoothing iron containing a heater within.
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Examples
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Thinking of her future absence, mother turned away and cried; and the box-iron singed the blanket.
Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004
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If it wasn't for the look of the thing, one might as well shove one's foot into a box-iron.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, July 24, 1841 Various
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Margaret returned to the parlor, and from the kitchen Jean could hear the heater tilted backward and forward in the box-iron -- a pleasant, homely sound when there is happiness in the house.
The Little Minister 1898
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[605] What the great TWALMLEY was so proud of having invented, was neither more nor less than a kind of box-iron for smoothing linen.
Life Of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887
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When the dame returned, she resumed her box-iron, in which the heater went rattling about, as, standing on one leg -- the other was so much shorter -- she moved it to and fro over the garment on the table.
Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood George MacDonald 1864
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Thinking of her future absence, mother turned away and cried; and the box-iron singed the blanket.
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When it has absorbed the steam, and while wet, iron it with a box-iron.
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It was starched, hung over the back of a chair in the sunshine, and was then laid on the ironing-blanket; then came the warm box-iron.
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"Rag!" said the box-iron; and went proudly over the collar: for she fancied she was a steam-engine, that would go on the railroad and draw the waggons.
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(Oxford English Dictionary) [19.4] A box-iron is "a smoothing iron with a cavity to contain a heater."
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