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ironlike

  • a word derived from iron.

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He glazed red figures similar to Etruscan pots onto the matte surfaces of his ironlike black basalt ware.

From Time Magazine Archive

A single false turn of the wheel, and the Searcher would have been dashed to atoms against the ironlike rocks on each side, above, and below.

From The Wizard of the Sea A Trip Under the Ocean by Rockwood, Roy

He stooped and clutched the broken war axe, grasping the stone head in the palm of his great hand, the jagged and ironlike shaft projecting from between his ringers like the blade of a dagger.

From The Girl at the Halfway House A Story of the Plains by Hough, Emerson

His uniform, creased and stained, and now silvery with dew, flapped about a gaunt ironlike frame; and from under the leather peak of his kepi, even in his fever, his eyes burned steady and compelling.

From The Happy End by Hergesheimer, Joseph

Straight against the ironlike claws he drove, reckless in the grasp of the anger that had exploded within him at the unfair trick.

From The Plunderer by Oyen, Henry