Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Work in iron, such as gratings and rails.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Objects and parts of objects made of iron, as locks and keys, utensils, parts of a building, of a vessel, or the like: as, ornamental ironwork.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Anything made of iron; -- a general name of such parts or pieces of a building, vessel, carriage, etc., as consist of iron.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Anything made of
iron , or consists largely of it, especially when used for decoration.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun work made of iron (gratings or rails or railings etc)
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Examples
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Another black coating for ironwork, which is really a lacquer, is obtained by melting ozokerite, which becomes a brown resinous mass, with a melting-point at 140° F.
Handbook on Japanning: 2nd Edition For Ironware, Tinware, Wood, Etc. With Sections on Tinplating and Galvanizing William N. Brown
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The place is crammed with sacks, bags, boxes, parcels and goods mixed together, such as ironwork for agricultural machines, and in a corner lies a rick-cloth smelling strongly of tar like the rigging of a ship.
Hodge and His Masters Richard Jefferies 1867
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Of course, Ruskin thought pretty wrought ironwork looked like a prison, so what do I know.
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While some of the men mended harness, others repaired the frames and ironwork of the wagons.
Chapter 13 2010
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The notable gazebo in Alamos 'main plaza displays fine ironwork.
The notable gazebo in Alamos' main plaza displays fine ironwork. © Gerry Soroka, 2009 2009
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The filigreed ironwork of a stairway saved from Louis Sullivan's demolished Chicago Stock Exchange leads unexpectedly to the second floor.
The New World Reborn Ada Louise Huxtable 2012
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It was three stories, with two balconies and lacy ironwork for railings.
Darkness Becomes Her Kelly Keaton 2011
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Much of the story is set in what was then Leningrad, a city of contrasts: the home of "Pushkin and the tsars, of granite embankments and lace ironwork," where people stood in line for necessities like toilet paper and milk.
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So Mr Lansley resembles a bungee jumper who has thrown himself off the bridge and now finds himself hurtling upwards, terrified of banging his head on the ironwork.
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The architect Hugh Casson found his attentions drifting while watching "the military ironwork clattering by" in the National Day parade, though the physicist J.D.
Early Orientations Raymond Zhong 2011
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