castiron

See also: cast-iron and cast iron

English

Alternative forms

• cast-iron
• cast iron

Adjective

castiron (comparative more castiron, superlative most castiron)

1. Alternative spelling of cast iron
   • 1974, Hjalmar Thesan, Country Days: Chronicles of Knysna & the Southern Cape, David Philip, published 1974, →ISBN, page 35:

     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.

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

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

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

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

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Noun

castiron (uncountable)

1. Alternative spelling of cast iron
   • 1989, Popular Science, November 1989, page 133 (advertisement):

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

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

     (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.)

   • 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:

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

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Anagrams

• C-rations, Cortinas, Crisanto, Nicastro, Nicotras, anticors, cantoris, carotins, castorin, conistra, cortinas, nicators, tricosan-