plate iron

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   a plate of iron

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Questions about plate iron

What does plate iron mean?

plate iron means "a plate of iron".

Is plate iron a common word?

plate 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.