0 a chemical element that is a common greyish-coloured metal. It is strong, used in making steel, and exists in very small amounts in blood: --
an iron deficiency
iron ore
Liver is a particularly rich source of dietary iron.
1 a piece of equipment for making clothes flat and smooth that has a handle and a flat base and is usually heated with electricity: --
2 a stick that has an iron or steel part at the end that is used to hit the ball in golf: --
3 chains tied around someone to prevent them from escaping or moving: --
5 very strong physically, mentally, or emotionally: --
The emissary who alerted his brothers to a threat to their custom deserved two to six years in irons.
One suspects, however, that the contributors would argue that 'connections' are entirely different, in which case the definitional ambiguities need ironing out.
In this way diaspora communities are able to subsume all their disparate histories within a single meta-narrative which irons out all the" wrinkles".
Their once clear and sometimes angular outlines were more and more ironed out and obscured by roulades and other decorative patterns.
The two irons are tetrahedrally coordinated by inorganic sulfide ions and cysteine residues.
I prepared the dinner, got to do the washing in the washing machine and hang it up, and ironing and things.
Crinkles in clothes taken from bales are preserved, for example, because carefully washed and ironed clothes could equally well have come from a local grave.
Once these have been ironed out this book will surely set the standard for some time into the future.
