sad-iron

In the kitchen, the muffled pounding of a sad-iron upon the padded ironing-board.

The Trail of the Hawk A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life Sinclair Lewis 1918

If it be a disgrace for a woman to work then is this nation in a very bad way, for few of us are the sons or daughters "of an hundred earls" -- can go back more than a generation or two without finding a maternal ancestor blithely swinging the useful sad-iron or taking a vigorous fall out of the wash-tub.

The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 10 1905

Page 183 meal, handling the sad-iron or washboard.

Fifty Years of Slavery in the United States of America 1891

He struck her again, and she struck him a terrific blow with a sad-iron she was using, which felled him to the ground.

Fifty Years of Slavery in the United States of America 1891

Wall, as I looked off and got a plain view of the Illinois, it was headed towards me jest right, and I thought it wuz shaped some like my biggest flat-iron, or sad-iron, as some call 'em.

Samantha at the World's Fair Marietta Holley 1881

But I don't care how careful a wife is, nor how good an eye she may have for shirt buttons, there will come a time, when, from some cause or other, she will momentarily abate her vigilance, and that will be the very time when Betty's washing-board, or Nancy's sad-iron, has been at work upon the buttons.

Trials and Confessions of a Housekeeper 1847

In the morning they had been pressed -- without a sad-iron.]

If, Yes and Perhaps Four Possibilities and Six Exaggerations with Some Bits of Fact Edward Everett Hale 1865