white iron

noun

1. cast iron having most or all of its carbon in the form of cementite and exhibiting a silvery fracture.

Word History and Origins

Origin of white iron¹

First recorded in 1525–35

Example Sentences

The white iron cots are neat as well as comfortable, and there should be a good mattress always.

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She went to the side of a small white iron bed in which lay a boy of eight and another of three.

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He went on to the house with the white iron images in the front yard.

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The rooms were all perfectly bare and bleak-looking: white walls, white iron beds, curtainless windows and carpetless floors.

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The only alloy of iron interesting to the arts, is that with tin, in the formation of tin-plate, or white-iron.

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