malleable iron

American  

noun

1. malleable cast iron.

2. wrought iron.

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malleable iron British  

noun

1. Also called: malleable cast iron.  cast iron that has been toughened by gradual heating or slow cooling

2. a less common name for wrought iron

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Etymology

Origin of malleable iron

First recorded in 1815–25

Example Sentences

It soon became the biggest Southern producer of malleable iron castings.

From Time Magazine Archive

The industry uses 60% of the country's synthetic rubber, 50% of its malleable iron, 33% of its zinc, 25% of its steel and 17% of its aluminum.

From Time Magazine Archive

These differences in practice would not have assumed such magnitude but for the introduction of mild steel in place of malleable iron.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 2 "Bohemia" to "Borgia, Francis" by Various

It is a solid shaft of malleable iron, the natives claim its foundation is laid in the center of the earth.

From My Trip Around the World August, 1895-May, 1896 by Hunt, Eleonora

By this process a portion of the carbon in the casting is removed, and the strength and toughness of the latter become more like the strength and toughness of wrought or malleable iron.

From An Introduction to Machine Drawing and Design by Low, David Allan