gray iron

American  

noun

1. pig iron or cast iron having much of its carbon in the form of graphite and exhibiting a gray fracture.

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Etymology

Origin of gray iron

First recorded in 1655–65

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gray iron

To enter 732 S. Vermont Ave., you must carefully shove open a rusted gray iron gate until a gap large enough for you to slide through sideways appears.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 29, 2022

Above the dark gray iron, stone walls formed the North Tower.

From "Huntress" by Malinda Lo

Face set in a fighting mask and eyes hard as gray iron, deeper and deeper he drove his now irresistible forces.

From Skylark Three by Wessolowski, Hans Waldemar

Leslie unpinned from its cambric cover a gray iron barége, with a narrow puffing round the hem of the full skirt and the little pointed bertha cape.

From A Summer in Leslie Goldthwaite's Life. by Whitney, A. D. T. (Adeline Dutton Train)

Another was a specialist in hickory, and thought and talked spokes; another was a reservoir of dependable facts about rubber; another about gray iron castings; another about paints and enamels, and so on.

From Youth Challenges by Kelland, Clarence Budington