cast iron
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.46 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A hard and brittle, but strong, alloy of iron, carbon, and silicon, formed by casting in a mould.
Countable; Uncountable
adj
Example Sentences
- "Cast iron is popular for cookware where an even heating temperature is important."
- "The history of cast iron in railway bridges is much more grimly chequered. Brunel's misgivings were proved prudent, tragically, in the 1879 failure of Thomas Bouch's Tay bridge (once a monument to cast iron, now a memorial to many lives lost)."
- "I use a cast iron skillet for frying pancakes."
- "Various forms of conductors have been invented, such as wooden and iron pipes, of a round, square, and polygonal section; but at present, scarcely any other than sheet or cast iron pipes are employed."
- "The old black cast iron skillet is an important part of the batterie de cuisine."
- "Three small gelignite bombs, with pocket watch timing devices, were concealed in packets small enough to fit through the slot of the standard cast-iron post box, the cylindrical bright red colored boxes so common throughout London."
Etymology
Usage
Inflected Forms
cast irons (plural)
castiron (alternative)
cast-iron (alternative)
more cast iron (comparative)
most cast iron (superlative)