stovepipe iron

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   plate iron that is thinner than tank iron

   Broaderplate iron

Questions about stovepipe iron

What does stovepipe iron mean?

stovepipe iron means "plate iron that is thinner than tank iron".

Is stovepipe iron a common word?

stovepipe 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.