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Old Thu Dec 21, 2006, 08:38pm
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When did "iron" become a verb? I don't get it.
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When did "iron" become a verb? I don't get it.
In the sense you mean, the earliest usage as a verb was in 1680, in the Earl of Rochester's Trial of the Poets. Fielding and Dickens later pressed the usage further.
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