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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.


Etymology

Origin of gray iron

First recorded in 1655–65

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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

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