Meanings
nounlamp-iron (plural lamp-irons)
plural lamp-irons
- rail transportA piece of iron projecting upwards on which a lamp can be hung.
One or two lines (the G.N.R. and the L.D. & E.C.R., for example) had two lamp-irons, one above the other, on the chimney, and the Midland and the North Staffordshire achieved the same effect by placing the secomd iron a short way down on the smokebox door.
1945 March and April, J. T. Howard Turner, T. S. Lascelles, “Former Head-Code Complications—I”, in Railway Magazine, page 75
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