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Iron
1. A golf club used for middle-distance shots. He used a nine iron for that
shot.
2. A tool for changing a tire on a car. He got out the iron and changed the
flat tire.
3 To pass an iron over cloth to remove creases. She ironed her dress.
4. A tool or appliance made of metal, which is heated and then used to transfer
heat to something else; most often a thick piece of metal fitted with a handle
and having a flat, roughly triangular bottom, which is heated and used to press
wrinkles from clothing, and now usually containing an electrical heating
apparatus. If your clothes are wrinkled you need an iron to fix them.
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