The blacksmith kept a pouch of iron flints by the forge for striking sparks.

At mealtime, the platoon laid out their fighting irons—spoons, forks, and knives—on the mess table.

After the first fields are ploughed each spring, Belgian and French farmers begin sorting the iron harvest—unexploded ordnance, barbed wire, shrapnel, bullets and trench supports left from World War I.

Before we started sealing the hull, the foreman inspected each pair of calking irons to ensure they were serviceable.

The shipwright used a calking iron to force oakum into the seams of the hull.

The blacksmith admired the steely iron bar before shaping it into a tool.

The antique chest in the workshop was full of jagging irons used by generations of bakers to decorate pie crusts.

She used a pinking iron to create a decorative scalloped edge on the satin ribbon.

She collected antique pinking irons and displayed them in the sewing room.

The cooper used a scribing iron to mark each cask with its batch number before sending them to the cellar.