iron
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /æːn/
ipa: /æən/
ipa: /ˈaɪən/
enpr: ī'ərn
ipa: /ˈaɪ(ə)ɹn/
ipa: /ˈaɪɹən/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈajə(r)n/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈajrən/
homophone: ion stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
rhymes: -aɪə(ɹ)n
Forms: form: irons
form: ironing
form: ironed
form: ironed
Etymology: From Middle English iren, from Old English īsern, īsærn, īren, īsen, from Proto-West Germanic *īsarn, from Proto-Germanic *īsarną (“iron”), from Proto-Celtic *īsarnom (“iron”), a derivation from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ésh₂r̥ (“blood”).
Cognates
Cognate with Scots airn, ern (“iron”), Yola eeren (“iron”), Saterland Frisian Iersen (“iron”), West Frisian izer (“iron”), Bavarian Eisn (“iron”), Cimbrian aizarn (“iron”), Dutch ijzer (“iron”), German, Luxembourgish Eisen (“iron”), German Low German Isen (“iron”), Limburgish iezer (“iron”), Mòcheno aisn (“iron”), Vilamovian ȧjza (“iron”), West Flemish yzer (“iron”), Yiddish אײַזן (ayzn, “iron”), Danish jern, jærn (“iron”), Faroese jarn (“iron”), Icelandic járn (“iron”), Jamtish járn, jáðn (“iron”), Norwegian Bokmål jern (“iron”), Norwegian Nynorsk jarn, jern, jønn (“iron”), Swedish jern, jaͤrn, järn (“iron”), Gothic 𐌴𐌹𐍃𐌰𐍂𐌽 (eisarn, “iron”).
Senses: examples: text: You'd be wise to iron that shirt before you wear it.
text: Out of that tub had come the day before - Tess felt it with a dreadful sting of remorse - the very white frock upon her back which she had so carelessly greened about the skirt on the damping grass - which had been wrung up and ironed by her mother's own hands.
ref: 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 30:
glosses: To pass an iron over (clothing or some other item made of cloth) in order to remove creases.
examples: text: They were washing and ironing all morning.
glosses: To engage in such pressing of clothing.
examples: text: [...] is it he who is ironed like a malefactor—who is to be dragged on a hurdle to the common gallows—to die a lingering and cruel death, and to be mangled by the hand of the most outcast of wretches?
ref: 1814, Walter Scott, Waverley:
glosses: To shackle with irons; to fetter or handcuff.
examples: text: to iron a wagon
glosses: To furnish, clad, or arm with iron.
Synonyms: sense: to pass an iron over
word: press
Coordinate terms: sense: to pass an iron over
word: mangle
Derived terms: ironer
ironing
iron-on
iron out
non-iron
unironed
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