Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A piece of iron rod which, having been bent to the contour of a curved pipe-pattern, is used as a guide by which the core-maker strickles up its core without the use of a core-box.
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Examples
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The cage descended slowly, screaming and grating along the rusted guide-iron, and in a matter of many minutes landed us on a platform of ebony bog left by the receding waters.
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