ironworker

American  

[ahy-ern-wur-ker] / ˈaɪ ərnˌwɜr kər /

noun

1. a worker worker in iron.

2. a person employed in an ironworks. ironworks.

3. a person who works with structural steel.

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ironworker British  

/ ˈaɪənˌwɜːkə /

noun

1. a person who works in an ironworks

2. a person who makes articles of iron

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Other Word Forms

• ironworking noun

Etymology

Origin of ironworker

late Middle English word dating back to 1400–50; iron, worker

Example Sentences

The State Building and Construction Trades Council represents hundreds of thousands of workers in the state, including bricklayers, ironworkers and painters, among many others.

From Los Angeles Times

The roughly four-year program — sometimes called the University of Iron — has ballooned to nearly 250 ironworkers who get supplemental training as they continue to work on job sites.

From Los Angeles Times

Mr. Scheig, an ironworker who helped build the city’s famous arch, never told their family exactly what he was doing at the plant, where scientists first began processing uranium for the Manhattan Project in 1942.

From New York Times

Her great-great grandfather was an ironworker named Henson Summers, whose unusual first name helped genealogists to trace his family.

From Science Magazine

Last summer, the first five women graduated from that state’s program, a partnership between the corrections department and the ironworkers, bricklayers and cement masons unions, which offer direct or preferred entry to graduates.

From Seattle Times