steam iron

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   a pressing iron that can emit steam

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Questions about steam iron

What does steam iron mean?

steam iron means "a pressing iron that can emit steam".

Is steam iron a common word?

steam 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.