SOLDERING IRON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does soldering iron mean? 

• SOLDERING IRON (noun)
  The noun SOLDERING IRON has 1 sense:

1. a hand tool with a heatable tip; used to melt and apply solder

  Familiarity information: SOLDERING IRON used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SOLDERING IRON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A hand tool with a heatable tip; used to melt and apply solder

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("soldering iron" is a kind of...):

hand tool (a tool used with workers' hands)

 Context examples 

First he took out a soldering iron and some plumbing solder, and then a small oil-lamp, which gave out, when lit in a corner of the tomb, gas which burned at fierce heat with a blue flame; then his operating knives, which he placed to hand; and last a round wooden stake, some two and a half or three inches thick and about three feet long.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)