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Noun: electric iron
  1. An iron which uses resistive heating from an electric current.
    "The early electric irons had no easy way to control their temperature, and the first thermostatically controlled electric iron appeared in the 1920s."

Derived forms: electric irons

Type of: iron, smoothing iron

Encyclopedia: Electric iron