driving iron

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   (golf) the long iron with the most nearly vertical face

   Synonymsone iron

   Broaderiron

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Questions about driving iron

What does driving iron mean?

driving iron means "(golf) the long iron with the most nearly vertical face".

What is another word for driving iron?

Close synonyms include one iron. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is driving iron a common word?

driving iron is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.