iron

A common, inexpensive metal, silvery grey when untarnished, that rusts, is attracted by magnets, and is used in making steel: a chemical element having atomic number 26 and symbol Fe.

Today we studied about metals — including iron — at school.

They gather one by one, trickling into the shady courtyard, the familiar hum of Mass. Ave. wafting in from behind brick buildings and iron gates.

Any material, not a steel, predominantly made of elemental iron.

A tool or appliance made of metal, which is heated and then used to transfer heat to something else; most often a thick piece of metal fitted with a handle and having a flat, roughly triangular bottom, which is heated and used to press wrin

Any of several other tools traditionally made of wrought iron, now usually of steel.

Shackles.

Made of the metal iron.

Strong (as of will), inflexible.

She had an iron will.

He held on with an iron grip.

To pass an iron over (clothing or some other item made of cloth) in order to remove creases.

You'd be wise to iron that shirt before you wear it.

Out of that tub had come the day before - Tess felt it with a dreadful sting of remorse - the very white frock upon her back which she had so carelessly greened about the skirt on the damping grass - which had been wrung up and ironed by her mother's own hands.

To engage in such pressing of clothing.

They were washing and ironing all morning.

To shackle with irons; to fetter or handcuff.

[...] is it he who is ironed like a malefactor—who is to be dragged on a hurdle to the common gallows—to die a lingering and cruel death, and to be mangled by the hand of the most outcast of wretches?

To furnish, clad, or arm with iron.

to iron a wagon