Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Old iron, as cuttings of plates and other miscellaneous fragments, accumulated for reworking.
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Examples
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I saw scrap-iron hutments and tiled rooftops the color of autumn leaves, and smoky blue hillsides creased by waterfalls and half-eaten by gray monsoon clouds.
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'I'll hold you responsible, Captain Munster,' says he to me, mad enough to eat scrap-iron.
Chapter 18 2010
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I saw scrap-iron hutments and tiled rooftops the color of autumn leaves, and smoky blue hillsides creased by waterfalls and half-eaten by gray monsoon clouds.
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I had a splendid constitution, a stomach that would digest scrap-iron, and
Chapter 6 2010
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When it comes down to hard - pan, I can digest scrap-iron.
Chapter 1 2010
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In London, Maroussia tried to start a literary career, meeting HG Wells, before finally following her husband to Northern Ireland where he set up a scrap-iron merchants, while she, writing ambitions on hold, taught ballet.
Dan Edelstyn: My quest for the family spirit Stuart Jeffries 2010
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I saw scrap-iron hutments and tiled rooftops the color of autumn leaves, and smoky blue hillsides creased by waterfalls and half-eaten by gray monsoon clouds.
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One such hire was Mr. Cayne, a former scrap-iron salesman who joined the firm in 1969 and eventually became one of its top brokers to wealthy individual clients.
Cayne to Step Down 2008
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A glib and gruff former scrap-iron salesman from Chicago with a penchant for cigars, golf and cards, Mr. Cayne had often taken off Thursday afternoons and Fridays that summer to play golf near his New Jersey vacation home.
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Over the years, Mr. Cayne, a onetime scrap-iron salesman who joined the firm in 1969, amassed millions of shares in the company.
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