clothing-iron

plural clothing-irons

1. rareRare form of clothing iron.

   Mary Lindahl heated her clothing-iron on the kitchen stove and in the early years washed clothes in a brook.

   2004 January 26, Sonia Scherr, “A Life: Lindahl Had ‘Sense of Her Worth’”, in Valley News, volume 52, number 231, West Lebanon, N.H., →ISSN, →OCLC, page A5, columns 2–3

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   And he explores the ever-widening array of enlistees in the eBay revolution, from a stay-at-home mom who had to rent a warehouse for her thriving business selling bubble-wrap on eBay to the young MBA who started eBay Motors (which within months of its launch was on track to sell $1 billion in cars a year), to collectors nervously bidding thousands of dollars on antique clothing-irons.

   2002, Adam Cohen, The Perfect Store: Inside eBay, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, description

   Vic held out a protective hand, then the blur took shape and looked very much like Marion with a clothing-iron above her head.

   2019, Justin Holley, chapter 6, in Seven Cleopatra Hill, Macabre Ink, published 2022, →ISBN