wrought iron

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   iron having a low carbon content that is tough and malleable and so can be forged and welded

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Questions about wrought iron

What does wrought iron mean?

wrought iron means "iron having a low carbon content that is tough and malleable and so can be forged and welded".

Is wrought iron a common word?

wrought 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.