scrap iron

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   iron to be melted again and reworked

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Questions about scrap iron

What does scrap iron mean?

scrap iron means "iron to be melted again and reworked".

Is scrap iron a common word?

scrap 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.