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Cast iron, cast-iron. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1893, rev. 2025. Cast iron, cast-iron [see CAST ppl. a.]

1   1.  Iron run in a molten state into molds where it has cooled and hardened.

2 1664.  Evelyn, Kal. Hort. (1729), 232. The … Pipes … should they be of the best Cast Iron.

3 1665.  D. Dudley, Metallum Martis, 31. Give me leave to mention that there be three sorts of cast iron.

4 1679.  Plot, Staffordsh. (1686), 164. For the backs of Chimneys, Garden-rolls, and such like; they use a sort of cast-Iron.

5 1788.  Alderson, Ess. Fevers, 49. If the ingenious workers of Cast Iron would turn their thoughts to this Article, Iron Bedsteads might be supplied.

6 1812.  Sir H. Davy, Chem. Philos., 392. The process for reducing cast iron into malleable iron called blooming.

7 1869.  Roscoe, Elem. Chem., 240. Cast iron is manufactured … chiefly from clay ironstone.

8   2.  attrib. (commonly hyphened.)

9 1692.  in Capt. Smith’s Seaman’s Gram., II. xiv. 110. A Cast Iron-Bullet of 4 Inches Diameter.

10 1756.  C. Lucas, Ess. Waters, III. 104. I took then, a large flat, or shallow cast iron pot.

11 1816.  Gentl. Mag., LXXXVI. II. 424. We have Cast-Iron Bridges, Cast-Iron Boats, Cast-Iron Roads.

12 1881.  Metal World, 21 May, 28/2. Cast iron fences of much elaboration of pattern.

13   b.  fig. Hard, insensible to fatigue; rigid, stern, unbending; ‘hard-and-fast,’ unyielding, wanting in pliancy or adaptiveness. (hyphened.)

14 1830.  A. Fonblanque, Eng. under 7 Admin., II. 27. He [Wellington] was esteemed a cast-iron Statesman.

15 1831.  Carlyle, Sart. Res. (1858), 19. His look … of that cast-iron gravity frequent enough among our own Chancery suitors.

16 1856.  Emerson, Eng. Traits, xii. Those eupeptic studying mills, the cast-iron men.

17 1870.  Lowell, Study Wind., 159. He laid down … no cast-iron theorem, to which circumstances must be fitted as they rose.

18 1876.  Lubbock, Elementary Educ., in Contemp. Rev., June, 80. It is very undesirable to lay down cast-iron rules of this kind.

19 1886.  C. D. Warner, Summer in Garden, 51. What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back,—with a hinge in it.

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