iron putty

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   a cement resembling putty; made by mixing ferric oxide and boiled linseed oil; is acid resistant

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Questions about iron putty

What does iron putty mean?

iron putty means "a cement resembling putty; made by mixing ferric oxide and boiled linseed oil; is acid resistant".

Is iron putty a common word?

iron putty 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.