Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A smoothing-iron for garments and textile fabrics generally, especially one differing from the ordinary flatiron in being hollow and heated by red-hot pieces of iron put into it. Compare
box-iron .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An iron for smoothing clothes; a flatiron.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
flatiron which has aremovable handle and ispointed at both ends.
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Examples
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A wooden tank may be rendered capable of withstanding the effects of nitric or sulphuric acids by the following methods: -- Cover the inside with paraffin; go over the inside with a sadiron heated to the temperature used in ironing clothes.
Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889 Barkham Burroughs
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[Illustration: Lamp and sadiron] [Illustration: Postrider (Footnote: From an old print, 1760)] \% 92.
A School History of the United States John Bach McMaster 1892
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