smoothing-iron

He sought out a tall oak tree, climbed up to the top, and felt devoutly thankful that his big smoothing-iron was in his pocket, for the wind in the tree-tops was so high that he might easily have been blown away altogether.

The Green Fairy Book 2003

Nails in the front of a bed ward off elves from women "in the straw" and from their babes; but to make quite sure it is better to put the smoothing-iron under the bed, and the reaping-hook in the window.

The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion 1922

Nails in the front of a bed ward off elves from women “in the straw” and from their babes; but to make quite sure it is better to put the smoothing-iron under the bed, and the reaping-hook in the window.

Chapter 21. Tabooed Things. § 2. Iron tabooed 1922

Owing to his brother's early death – an event quite disconnected, let me hasten to say, from the red-hot smoothing-iron – she showed

Maria Edgeworth 1905

Sponge faded silks with warm water and soap; then rub them with a dry cloth on a flat board; afterward iron them on the inside with a smoothing-iron.

Practical Suggestions for Mother and Housewife Marion Mills Miller 1906

There was, of course, no central heating, and no electricity for one's smoothing-iron, so that one's clothing must become quite disreputable for want of pressing.

Ruggles of Red Gap Harry Leon Wilson 1903

College and Hall: every 'Oxford man,' to adopt the well-known name, is subdued into sameness within and without, controlled as it were into copyism and mediocrity by the smoothing-iron of the nineteenth century.

From a Cornish Window A New Edition Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

You could hear the sound of Sister Tobias's smoothing-iron coming up from below, thump-thumping on the blanketed board.

The Dop Doctor Richard Dehan 1897

Nails in the front of a bed ward off elves from women "in the straw" and from their babes; but to make quite sure it is better to put the smoothing-iron under the bed, and the reaping-hook in the window.

The Golden Bough James George Frazer 1897

And I wouldn't have then, only I sent up this cotton waste and oil from the engine-room this afternoon for a girl upstairs who had her hand burned with a smoothing-iron.

The Four Million O. Henry 1886