Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A holder, made of cloth or other material, with which a hot flat-iron is handled.
- noun An iron-stand.
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Examples
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The saddler gave it at so low a price that we perceived he must have tacitly abated something from the visual demand, and when we did not try to beat him down, his wife went again into that inner room and came out with an iron-holder of scarlet flannel backed with canvas, and fringed with magenta, and richly inwrought with a Moorish design, in white, yellow, green, and purple.
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When Fatty judged that it was warm enough, he took it off the fire, being careful to hold it with an iron-holder.
The Mystery of the Secret Room Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1963
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A heavy iron-holder should be provided; and the irons should be clean and smooth.
Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Household Science in Rural Schools Ontario. Ministry of Education
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Grace was weaving for Robert, and the mittens for Harry, and the socks for the baby, and the pen-wiper for papa, and the iron-holder for mamma; and then Effie took her aside alone, to show her something she was making for Grace; and Grace took her aside alone, to show something she had bought with "her own money" for Effie; and there was a beautiful book for Cousin Emily.
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The saddler gave it at so low a price that we perceived he must have tacitly abated something from the visual demand, and when we did not try to beat him down, his wife went again into that inner room and came out with an iron-holder of scarlet flannel backed with canvas, and fringed with magenta, and richly inwrought with a Moorish design, in white, yellow, green, and purple.
Familiar Spanish Travels William Dean Howells 1878
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I had stepped into the cellar to get an iron-holder, when I heard the voices of persons in the street above, and recognised those of my mother and the Irish woman her friend.
Awful Disclosures Containing, Also, Many Incidents Never before Published Maria Monk 1832
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"and I will make an iron-holder;" with which she calmly cut several inches off the end of her sash, and began to fold it for the purpose.
A Flat Iron for a Farthing or Some Passages in the Life of an only Son Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing 1863
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