Types and Names
Historically, irons have had several variations and thus been referred to by many names:
- Flat Iron or Smoothing Iron
- The general name for a hand-held iron consisting simply of a handle and a solid, flat, metal base, and named for the flat ironing face used to smooth clothes.
- Sad Iron or Sadiron
- Mentioned above, meaning "solid" or heavy iron, where the base is a solid block of metal, sometimes (but not always) used to refer irons with heavier bases than a typical "flat iron".
- Box Iron, Ironing Box, Charcoal Iron, Ox-Tongue Iron or Slug Iron
- Mentioned above; the base is a container, into which you can insert hot coals or a metal brick or slug to keep the iron heated. The ox-tongue iron is named for the particular shape of the insert, referred to as an ox-tongue slug.
- Goose, Tailor's Goose or, in Scottish, Gusing Iron
- A type of flat iron or sad iron named for the goose-like curve in its neck, and (in the case of "tailor's goose") its usage by tailors.
Read more about this topic: Clothes Iron, History and Development of Flat Iron
Famous quotes containing the words types and/or names:
“As for types like my own, obscurely motivated by the conviction that our existence was worthless if we didn’t make a turning point of it, we were assigned to the humanities, to poetry, philosophy, painting—the nursery games of humankind, which had to be left behind when the age of science began. The humanities would be called upon to choose a wallpaper for the crypt, as the end drew near.”
—Saul Bellow (b. 1915)
“There are names written in her immortal scroll at which Fame blushes!”
—William Hazlitt (1778–1830)
Related Phrases
Related Words