searing iron

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   a hot iron used to destroy tissue

   Broadercautery

Questions about searing iron

What does searing iron mean?

searing iron means "a hot iron used to destroy tissue".

Is searing iron a common word?

searing 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.