(metallurgy, blacksmithing, literally) To strike a hot piece of metal, especially iron, with a mallet or other tool before it cools, while it is still hot enough to be shaped.

(Australia, slang) Is lazy.

Alternative form of strike while the iron is hot

Any ore of iron which is impure through the admixture of silica or clay. / A type of vitreous pottery similar to stoneware

plural of ironsmith

A blacksmith (who makes articles from iron) / An East Indian barbet (Psilopogon faber) whose note resembles the sounds made by a smith.

The work of an ironsmith or blacksmith.

(geology) streaked, speckled, or marked with iron or an iron ore

(historical) A trooper in the Parliamentarian cavalry formed by English political leader Oliver Cromwell in the 17th century, during the English Civil War.

A surname from Old English.