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 Iron-hand or the Iron-hander.Iron Mask. 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Iron Horse (The).
 
The railway locomotive.   1
        “We can now drive the iron horse from India down the valley of the Irrawaddy, and (viâ Moulmein) to the very gates of China, without any political impediment.”—Mr. Hallet, Dec., 1885.
 


 Iron-hand or the Iron-hander.Iron Mask. 

 
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