iron mould

1. 1.

   a spot caused the staining with rust or ink

   Synonymsiron mold

   Broaderstain

Questions about iron mould

What does iron mould mean?

iron mould means "a spot caused the staining with rust or ink".

What is another word for iron mould?

Close synonyms include iron mold. 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 iron mould a common word?

iron mould 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.