short iron

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   an iron with a short shaft and pitched face; for hitting short high shots

   Broaderiron

Questions about short iron

What does short iron mean?

short iron means "an iron with a short shaft and pitched face; for hitting short high shots".

Is short iron a common word?

short 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.