iron horse

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   (c. 1840) an early term for a locomotive

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Questions about iron horse

What does iron horse mean?

iron horse means "(c. 1840) an early term for a locomotive".

Is iron horse a common word?

iron horse 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.