Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A form of flat iron in which the thickness is small compared with the width, being small enough to make the ductile stock bend easily around corners when used as a tie or strap for securing packages, such as bundles of shingles, hay-bales, and the like.
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Examples
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He elaborated: "Never before were such crazy cars— passenger, baggage, mail, coal, box, platform, all and every sort wabbling on the jumping strap-iron—used for hauling good soldiers."
LEE’S LIEUTENANTS DOUGLAS SOUTHALL FREEMAN 2001
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He elaborated: "Never before were such crazy cars— passenger, baggage, mail, coal, box, platform, all and every sort wabbling on the jumping strap-iron—used for hauling good soldiers."
LEE’S LIEUTENANTS DOUGLAS SOUTHALL FREEMAN 2001
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The sinew wrappings held the strap-iron head, wetted as they now were with blood.
The Covered Wagon Emerson Hough 1890
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She held up an Indian arrow, its strap-iron head bent over at right angles.
The Covered Wagon Emerson Hough 1890
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Back from the levee a block or two the double lines of strap-iron stretched over a wooden causeway between parallel wet ditches gave evidence of some kind of a railway, on which, at rare intervals, jogged a sleepy mule with a sleepier driver and a musty old rattle-trap of a car, -- a car butting up against the animal's lazy hocks and rousing him occasionally to ringing and retaliatory kicks.
Waring's Peril Charles King 1888
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"strap-iron," always necessary, was rudely and slowly hammered out on an anvil.
Steam, Steel and Electricity James W. Steele
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By 1850, Robert L. Stevens’s development of all-iron rails in place of wooden rails with a strap-iron surface had been adopted everywhere—and in form and proportion it is still in use today.
Nothing Like It in the World The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869 STEPHEN E. AMBROSE 2000
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By 1850, Robert L. Stevens’s development of all-iron rails in place of wooden rails with a strap-iron surface had been adopted everywhere—and in form and proportion it is still in use today.
Nothing Like It in the World The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869 STEPHEN E. AMBROSE 2000
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Gimme pole riffles with a little strap-iron on the top and if you can't ketch it with that you can't ketch it with nothin '. "
The Man from the Bitter Roots Caroline Lockhart 1916
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