Ironwork
['aɪənwɜːk]
Definition
(noun.) work made of iron (gratings or rails or railings etc); 'the houses had much ornamental ironwork'.
Editor: Lou--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) Anything made of iron; -- a general name of such parts or pieces of a building, vessel, carriage, etc., as consist of iron.
Typist: Nadine
Examples
- I cleared out the building entirely to the walls and built my station of structural ironwork, running it up high. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- It was a fine, low, solid stone house and the ironwork of the well was very good. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- The mechanical revolution itself began, we may say, with the exhaustion of the wood supply for the ironworks of England. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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