IRONS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does irons mean? 

• IRONS (noun)
  The noun IRONS has 1 sense:

1. metal shackles; for hands or legs

  Familiarity information: IRONS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• IRONS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Metal shackles; for hands or legs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

chains; irons

Hypernyms ("irons" is a kind of...):

bond; hamper; shackle; trammel (a restraint that confines or restricts freedom (especially something used to tie down or restrain a prisoner))

Domain usage:

plural; plural form (the form of a word that is used to denote more than one)

 Context examples 

Also, he learned the reason why, and invaded his sister's kitchen in search of irons and ironing-board.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

“Well, gentlemen, that saves the trouble of putting him in irons.”

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

From it he took a coil of the strongest and lightest rope, a hundred and fifty feet in length, with climbing irons, clamps, and other devices.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was one of the irons I began to heat immediately, and one of the irons I kept hot, and hammered at, with a perseverance I may honestly admire.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

And now that we had Wolf Larsen in irons, how little did we need it!

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

It was very clean and neat: the ornamental windows were hung with little white curtains; the floor was spotless; the grate and fire-irons were burnished bright, and the fire burnt clear.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

There had been frost during the night, and the white hard road rang loud under their horses' irons as they spurred through the east gate of the town, along the same broad highway which the unknown French champion had traversed on the day of the jousts.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Of course a wolf that knows enough to come in with the dogs at feedin' time, 'd know all about shooting-irons. I tell you right now, Henry, that critter's the cause of all our trouble.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

He looked up from his task and saw Joe standing before him juggling flat- irons, starched shirts, and manuscripts.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Your ship's in irons, Master Silver; you're on a lee shore, and so you'll find.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)