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English
Noun
lamp-iron (plural lamp-irons)
- (rail transport) A piece of iron projecting upwards on which a lamp can be hung.
1945 March and April, J. T. Howard Turner, T. S. Lascelles, “Former Head-Code Complications—I”, in Railway Magazine, page 75:One or two lines (the G.N.R. and the L.D. & E.C.R., for example) had two lamp-irons, one above the other, on the chimney, and the Midland and the North Staffordshire achieved the same effect by placing the secomd iron a short way down on the smokebox door.
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