Iron Definition
- mangle
- press
- electric iron
- travel iron
- Teflon iron
- steam-iron
- presser
- occupied
- active
- engaged
- atomic number 26
- fe
- branding-iron
- smoothing-iron
- spiegel iron. associatedwords: ferriferous
- Lying head to the wind and unable to turn either way.
- An undertaking or project in progress:
has many irons in the fire this year.
- to have or be engaged in many (or several, etc.) activities, enterprises, or the like
- shackled with irons
- headed into the wind with no way on
- to smooth out; eliminate
Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Iron
- in irons
- iron in the fire
- have many (or several, etc.) irons in the fire
- in irons
- iron out
- strike while the iron is hot
Origin of Iron
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From Middle English iren, a rhotacism of Old English īsern, īsærn, īren, īsen, from Proto-Germanic *īsarną (compare Dutch ijzer, West Frisian izer, German Eisen, Danish jern), from Gaulish īsarno-, from Proto-Celtic *īsarno- (compare Welsh haearn, Irish iarann), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ésh₂r̥ (“blood”) (compare Hittite (ešḫar), Tocharian A ysār, Latvian asinis, Ancient Greek ἔαρ (ear), Old Armenian արիւն (ariwn), Sanskrit असृज् (asṛj)). The sense development runs from 'blood' to 'blood red' to 'ruddy metal'.
From Wiktionary
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Middle English iren from Old English īren eis- in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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