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1. alternativeAlternative form of cast iron.

   A large, castiron pot of beef stew was slowly simmering.

   1999, Ken Hodgson, The Hell Benders, Pinnacle Books, published 1999, →ISBN, page 139

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   Camped around its base and sleeping in a primitive 'skerm' of branches at night, with a bubbling castiron pot over a permanent fire, they would chip away until the great tree was down.

   1974, Hjalmar Thesan, Country Days: Chronicles of Knysna & the Southern Cape, David Philip, published 1974, →ISBN, page 35

   we add wood to the castiron stove, and midnight's candlelight trembles on the ceiling

   1986, Donald Hall, The Happy Man: Poems, Random House, published 1986, →ISBN, page 21

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1. alternativeuncountableAlternative form of cast iron.

   The brackets attaching the fire chamber to the bellows are made from castiron.

   1995, Paul Jackson, Smoking Allowed: A Pictorial Past of Honey Bee Smokers in the United States, A.I. Root Company, published 1995, →ISBN, page 14

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   Build low-cost safe furnace to melt aluminum, brass, even 20 pounds of castiron!

   1989, Popular Science, November 1989, page 133 (advertisement)

   (Of course, they ain't no churchveil in the world could withstand the bruising of a history like the one oldman Salizar and that Mother Maurina gave me later – unless of course it make from castiron – but fortunately enough I haven't heard of none of that nonsense yet.)

   1991, Robin Clark, Divina Trace, Robin Clark, published 1991, →ISBN, page 115