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wrought-iron

wrought-iron adjective: made from wrought iron.

Adjective

wrought-iron (not comparable)

  1. made from wrought iron
    • The cars, of which there were five, were four-wheelers seating 32, and had wrought-iron railings round the end platforms.1954 November, P. W. Gentry, “The Lambourn Valley Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 741
    • On February 24, 319379 crosses the wrought-iron Carr Mill Viaduct with Northern's 1515 Liverpool Lime Street-Wigan North Western service, viewed from a spillway for the reservoir.2023 May 31, “Feature Pictorial”, in RAIL, number 984, page 57, photo caption

Questions about wrought-iron

What does wrought-iron mean?
Wrought-iron means made from wrought iron.
What part of speech is wrought-iron?
Wrought-iron is an adjective.

Words near wrought-iron in the dictionary

  1. wrought
  2. wrought havoc
  3. wrought iron
  4. wrought irons
  5. wrought wonders
  6. wrought-iron
  7. wrought-up
  8. wroughten
  9. wroughtest
  10. wroughtiron
  11. Wroughton

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