the Iron Age
Definition of the Iron Age
: a period of time between about 3000 B.C. and 1000 B.C. in which people used iron to make weapons and tools
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: something made of iron: such as
: shackles for the hands or legs
: a heated metal implement used for branding or cauterizing
: of, relating to, or made of iron
: resembling iron
: strong and healthy : robust
: to furnish or cover with iron
: to shackle with irons
: to smooth with or as if with a heated iron
: the time of life at which some particular qualification, power, or capacity arises or rests
: majority
: one of the stages of life
: to become old : show the effects or the characteristics of increasing age
: to acquire a desirable quality (such as mellowness or ripeness) by standing undisturbed for some time
: to cause to become old
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