ironmaster
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of ironmaster
Example Sentences
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Anyone using a bicycle, car or train relies on the forgotten ingenuity of Philip Vaughan, an ironmaster from the Welsh town of Carmarthen who patented the idea in the 1790s.
From New York Times • Oct. 12, 2021
Danny Boyle's opening ceremony took an unashamed delight in Britain's past glories and nodded to a few of its horrors, from cricket on the village green to the rise of the ironmaster.
From The Guardian • Nov. 29, 2012
Sir James Heath, 80, British ironmaster and colliery owner; and Sophie Mary Lady Heath, who flew alone from Cape Town to London in 1928; in London.
From Time Magazine Archive
She marries a wealthy ironmaster, gets religion, tries to enliven her flat-spirited son, and finally finds her warmest happiness with Bonser �old, bruised and irresponsible, but still her own fearful joy.
From Time Magazine Archive
He carried it so gravely, that for the moment, I thought he was dipped in this secret traffick too, and that there was not an honest ironmaster in Sussex.
From Puck of Pook’s Hill by Rackham, Arthur
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