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Definition of "corrugated iron" []

  • A structural sheet iron, usually galvanized, shaped in parallel furrows and ridges for rigidity. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "corrugated iron" in a sentence
  • "No, no, the flimsy hills of Australia were like a new world, and the frail INCONSPICUOUSNESS of the landscape, that was still so clear and clean, clean of all fogginess or confusion: but the frail, aloof, inconspicuous clarity of the landscape was like a sort of heaven — bungalows, shacks, corrugated iron and all."
  • "Murdoch Street was an old sort of suburb, little squat bungalows with corrugated iron roofs, painted red."
  • "Gillanbone came with the dying sun, a strange small collection of ramshackle wooden and corrugated iron buildings along either side of one dusty wide street, treeless and tired."
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