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flatiron

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noun
  1. 1

    A simple iron (for pressing laundry) which is heated on a stove.

    • The evil-smelling larrikin, beer-imbued — The evil-loving brute-man homeward goes, He kicks his dirty children with his boot, Cursing their hunger, — and his poor worn wife With cold flat-irons and handled broom awaits His coming, to revile
  2. 2

    A pair of metal tongs with heated ceramic plates used for straightening hair.

  3. 3

    a quadrilateral with two parallel sides, one of which is very short, and whose non-parallel sides are longer than either parallel side.especially

  4. 4

    A steeply sloping triangular landform created by the differential erosion of a steeply dipping, erosion-resistant layer of rock overlying softer strata.

  5. 5

    Ellipsis of flat iron steak.abbreviationalt-ofellipsis

adj
  1. 1

    Having a flatiron shape.not-comparable

    • a flatiron building

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