Box Iron - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: box ironBox iron
A hollow smoothing iron containing a heater within...
iron maiden
An instrument of torture used in the middle ages consisting of a box large enough to hold a person often in the shape of a woman and having multiple sharp spikes on the inside Called also the iron maiden of Nuremberg...
Cast iron
Cast iron, 'Cast iron' is defined in the Concise Oxford Dictionary as 'a hard alloy of iron, carbon and silicon cast in a mould'. According to New Lexicon Webster's Dictionary of English Language, the word 'cast iron' means 'an iron-carbon alloy produced in a blast furnace. It contains up to 4% carbon, and is more brittle, but more easily fused, than steel'. According to Van Nostrand's scientific Encyclopedia, 'cast iron' is 'primarily the product of remelting and casting pig iron'. (Interestingly, the expression 'cast-iron' - with a hyphen between 'cast' and 'iron' - has been defined separately as meaning 'made of cast iron', Bengal Iron Corpn. v. CTO, 1994 Supp (1) SCC 310: AIR 1993 SC 2414 (2417). [A.P. General Sales Tax Act, (6 of 1957)]Cast iron casting in its basic or rough form just be held to be 'cast iron'. But, if thereafter any machining or polishing or any other process is done to the rough cast iron casting to produce things like pipes, manhole covers or bends, these canno...
boxed
enclosed in or set off by a border or box as boxed sections of the report boxed announcements in the newspaper...
jury box
jury box 1 : the usually enclosed place where the jury sits in a courtroom compare bar, bench, dock, sidebar, stand 2 : a box from which the names of prospective jurors are drawn by chance : jury wheel ...
Box
A tree or shrub flourishing in different parts of the world The common box Buxus sempervirens has two varieties one of which the dwarf box Buxus suffruticosa is much used for borders in gardens The wood of the tree varieties being very hard and smooth is extensively used in the arts as by turners engravers mathematical instrument makers etc...
Boxing day
The first week day after Christmas a legal holiday on which Christmas boxes are given to postmen errand boys employees etc The night of this day is boxing night...
Iron and steel
Iron and steel, the expression 'iron and steel' do not mean iron and steel in the original condition but also iron and steel in the shape of bars, flats and plates, State of M.B. v. Hiralalji, AIR 1966 SC 1546 (1966) 2 SCR 752. [M.B. Sales Tax Act, 1950 (30 of 1950), s. 5]...
Black box
any electronic instrument or part of an instrument whose function is defined but which is treated as a unit without consideration of the internal mechanisms broadly any device whose internal workings are considered as incomprehensible or mysterious by the user as to treat the meter as a black box and take its readings on faith...
Boxing
The act of inclosing anything in a box as for storage or transportation...
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