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† ˈpressing-iron Obs.
An iron implement (= iron n.1 5) used by tailors, dressmakers, laundresses, etc., which is heated, and used to press down seams, smooth cloth, and the like; a smoothing-iron. Also fig.
1343Reading Abbey Tailor's Compotus (Add. MS. 19657), In Reparacione vnius pressynge yryn pro Scissore viij.d. 1459Maldon, Essex, Court Rolls Bundle 34. No. 1 b, A pressynge yren, precii ii d. 1577–87Holinshed Chron. III. 1064/2 Then Mosbie hauing at his girdle a pressing iron of fourteene pounds weight, stroke him on the hed with the same. 1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts (1658) 313 Take a Taylors pressing Iron made hot and rub it up and down upon the cloth. c1637Wotton Let. to Sir R. Baker in Reliq. (1651) 446 Your worldly troubles have been but Pressing-Irons to your heavenly cogitations. |