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cast iron, cast-ˈiron
[see cast ppl. a.]
1. Iron run in a molten state into moulds where it has cooled and hardened.
1664Evelyn Kal. Hort. (1729) 232 The..Pipes..should they be of the best Cast Iron. 1665D. Dudley Metallum Martis 31 Give me leave to mention that there be three sorts of cast iron. 1679Plot Staffordsh. (1686) 164 For the back of chimneys..they use a sort of cast-iron. 1788Alderson Ess. Fevers 49 If the ingenious workers of Cast Iron would turn their thoughts to this Article, Iron Bedsteads might be supplied. 1812Sir H. Davy Chem. Philos. 392 The process for reducing cast iron into malleable iron called blooming. 1869Roscoe Elem. Chem. 240 Cast iron is manufactured..chiefly from clay ironstone.
2. attrib. (commonly hyphened.)
1692in Capt. Smith's Seaman's Gram. ii. xiv. 110 A Cast Iron-Bullet of 4 Inches Diameter. 1756C. Lucas Ess. Waters III. 104, I took a..shallow cast iron pot. 1816Gentl. Mag. LXXXVI. ii. 424 We have Cast-Iron Bridges, Cast-Iron Boats, Cast-Iron Roads. 1881Metal World 21 May 28/2 Cast iron fences of much elaboration of pattern.
b. fig. Hard, insensible to fatigue; rigid, stern, unbending; ‘hard-and-fast’, unyielding, wanting in pliancy or adaptiveness. (hyphened.)
1830A. Fonblanque Eng. under 7 Admin. II. 27 He [Wellington] was esteemed a cast-iron Statesman. 1831Carlyle Sart. Res. (1858) 19 His look..of that cast-iron gravity frequent enough among our own Chancery suitors. 1856Emerson Eng. Traits xii, Those eupeptic studying mills, the cast-iron men. 1870Lowell Study Wind. 159 He laid down..no cast-iron theorem, to which circumstances must be fitted as they rose. 1876Lubbock in Contemp. Rev. June 80 It is very undesirable to lay down cast-iron rules of this kind. 1886C. D. Warner Summer in Garden 51 What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it. |