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scrap iron
[f. scrap n.1]
1. Iron which has already been cast or wrought and broken up or cast aside for re-casting or re-working; broken pieces and small articles of old and disused ironwork. Also attrib.
scrap wrought iron, scrap consisting of pieces of malleable iron, which when re-cast produces a superior iron.
1823‘Jon Bee’ Dict. Turf 214 Mere ‘gatherers of scrap⁓iron’. 1839Civil Eng. & Arch. Jrnl. II. 432/2 The bolts to be of the best scrap iron. 1862Times 13 Aug. 4/2 In another..process scrap wrought iron is melted in admixture with pig iron. 1891Labour Commission Gloss. s.v., In Government yards, where they do not sell old boilers, &c. these are broken up and the pieces are placed in heaps (scrap heaps) and sold as old iron. Men employed at this are said to be on scrap iron work.
2. fig. An alcoholic drink of poor quality. U.S. slang.
1942Z. N. Hurston in Amer. Mercury July 85 Maybe a shot of scrap-iron or a reefer. 1958Washington Post 1 Nov. 1/1 A trio of investigators warned the drinking public yesterday to beware of a new bootleg concoction, ‘scrap iron’, noted more for its voltage than vintage. 1970C. Major Dict. Afro-Amer. Slang 101 Scrap iron, bad liquor. |