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Definition of Short iron
1. Noun. An iron with a short shaft and pitched face; for hitting short high shots.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Short Iron
Literary usage of Short iron
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Practical Treatise on Metallurgy: Adapted from the Last German Edition of by Bruno Kerl, William Crookes, Ernst Otto Röhrig (1869)
"Red-short iron (owing to the presence of sulphur and sometimes of copper) has a
dark, ... Very red-short iron has grey coarse fibres without lustre. ..."
2. The Manufacture of Iron, in All Its Various Branches: Including a by Frederick Overman (1854)
"Iron of first rate quality is not required for the manufacture of hoop and small
rod iron ; any cold-short iron will answer. For particular purposes ..."
3. The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by Charles Anderson Dana (1874)
"Phosphorus, on the contrary, makes iron " cold short," that is, brittle when cold.
A red short iron can be worked cold, and a cold short iron hot. ..."
4. The American Cyclopædia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by Charles Anderson Dana (1874)
"Phosphorus, on the contrary, makes iron " cold short," that is, brittle when cold.
A red short iron can be worked cold, and a cold short iron hot. ..."
5. The Mining Magazine (1857)
"Ores containing apatite, (phosphate of lime,) produce a cold-short iron. 3.
Ores containing manganese produce a hard crystalline iron, which is neither cold ..."
6. Chemical News and Journal of Physical Science (1868)
"The fragmenta obtained from red-short iron in boring a horseshoe does not often give
... If ihe red-short iron gives to the plate a slighter and more feeble ..."
7. The Emporium of Arts and Sciences by John Redman Coxe (1815)
"It is singular that in Bergman's Experiments, cold-short iron dissolved in acids,
... Bergman also attributed the quality of cold-short iron to siderite or ..."
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