Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A construction worker who builds steel structures.
- noun One who is employed in an ironworks.
- noun One who makes iron articles.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person employed to manufacture and shape
iron . - noun A construction worker who assembles the metal frame of buildings.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a person who makes articles of iron
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Examples
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(red circle) Bluetooth Network Name: ironworker why is bluetooth called ironworker, too? no matter, it isn't active.
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"Are you telling me that just because this " ironworker " has powerful parents across the ocean, Jeslek is being more careful of him than -?"
The Magic Engineer Modesitt, L. E. 1994
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Why would a union ironworker even for one second support anything even vaguely Republican.
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Pilotshark Sponsored by Boeing says: union ironworker huh. guessing next you be telling us that you are 6 ` 6 and 225 lbs?
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I am amused by the farcical notion that the greatest nation needs to be educated and saved by a meathead ironworker … We live in a fantasy SamJoe the wannabe plumber world …
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Why would a union ironworker even for one second support anything even vaguely Republican.
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Marksman was born of a peasant woman and a German immigrant who worked as an ironworker union organizer.
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March 18th, 2010 at 12: 18 pm dbadass says: actually I believe the topic is why a grown man would bretend to be a union ironworker and dick around online trying to draw negative attention?
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Marksman was born of a peasant woman and a German immigrant who worked as an ironworker union organizer.
Allan Wall Interview on Breitbart TV´s B-Cast, 5:15 p.m. Eastern Time, April 30th 2010
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March 18th, 2010 at 12: 22 pm bizarrobrain (brought to you by The Citadel of Satanic Kitten Worship and Tidy Cat) says: iw local 03 says: dbadass says: actually I believe the topic is why a grown man would bretend to be a union ironworker and dick around online trying to draw negative attention
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Tara Westover, Educated (New York: Random House, 2018), p. 139Wikipedia, Ironworker (machine)April 23, 2019