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Short iron   /ʃɔrt ˈaɪərn/   Listen
Short iron

noun
1.
An iron with a short shaft and pitched face; for hitting short high shots.






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"Short iron" Quotes from Famous Books



... occasions. One of the three investigators stepped to the door of the room, locked it, put the key in his pocket, took off his coat, and told Mr. Paine that he was determined to search his (Paine's) person, and that if he did not find about him a small short iron rod, by means of which, through a hole in the floor, a lever underneath was worked in moving the table, he (the speaker) would beg his (Mr. Paine's) pardon, and be forever after a firm believer in the power of disembodied ...
— The Humbugs of the World • P. T. Barnum

... steamer that has brought him from the city to a small boat, which is rowed to a spot over the wreck, and a short iron ladder is put over the side, down which he steps; and when the last rung is reached, he lets go, and the water bubbles and sparkles over his head as ...
— Harper's Young People, December 30, 1879 - An Illustrated Weekly • Various

... such a way as to form a six-sided case 12 inches long, 12-3/4 broad, and 2-3/4 thick, having a flap which doubles over in front, and is furnished with a rude lock and eight staples, admitted through perforations in the flap, for short iron rods to enter and meet at the lock. The whole outer surface, which has become perfectly black from age, is covered with figures and interlacings of the Irish pattern in relief, which appear to have been produced by subjecting the leather, in a damp state, before it was folded, ...
— The Book-Hunter - A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author • John Hill Burton



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