ni-hard iron

1. 1.

   cast iron to which nickel has been added to make it resist abrasion

   SynonymsNi-hard

   Broaderalloy iron

Questions about ni-hard iron

What does ni-hard iron mean?

ni-hard iron means "cast iron to which nickel has been added to make it resist abrasion".

What is another word for ni-hard iron?

Close synonyms include Ni-hard. 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 ni-hard iron a common word?

ni-hard 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.