(chiefly US, colloquial, dated) A firearm, especially a handgun.

A cooper's tool, consisting of a tanged iron band with folded-back wings, which hold the tanged irregularly dented blade, secured by a wooden wedge pressed between the tangs. / Iron from a croze.

(nautical) The "trapped" condition a sailing ship finds itself in when the bow of the ship is headed into the wind and the ship has stalled and is unable to maneuver.

(sociology) A theory proposed by Max Weber which argues that rationalization and rules trap humans in a figurative "cage" of thought.

(dated, Britain, uncountable) Tools and other hardware that can be bought in an ironmonger's shop. / (Britain, uncountable) The trade of an ironmonger. / (Britain, countable) An ironmonger's shop.

(nautical) A metal hook, attached to the end of a line, used to hold two ships together.

Wrought iron molded into bars.

(geology) Deposit of porous, impure limonite found in bogs and swamps.

(humorous) knife, fork and spoon; cutlery

simple past tense and past participle of iron out