soldering iron

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   a hand tool with a heatable tip; used to melt and apply solder

   Broaderhand tool

Questions about soldering iron

What does soldering iron mean?

soldering iron means "a hand tool with a heatable tip; used to melt and apply solder".

Is soldering iron a common word?

soldering 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.