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corrugated iron

noun

  1. a type of sheet iron or steel strengthened for use in construction by having a series of alternating grooves and ridges forced into it, and usually galvanized for weather resistance.


corrugated iron

noun

  1. a thin structural sheet made of iron or steel, formed with alternating ridges and troughs


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Word History and Origins

Origin of corrugated iron1

First recorded in 1885–90

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Example Sentences

The dugout was covered with semi-circular sheets of corrugated iron, forming a vaulted roof.

At the same time parts of the corrugated iron roof collapsed.

Since the Nehers departed, the school got a corrugated iron roof and there is now a real road into the town.

There were trees and electrical poles strewn across the road and corrugated iron roofing that had been ripped off houses.

And the parson went to live in the town, beside his church—in a corrugated iron house that was run up for him.

The corrugated iron roofs were dazzlingly white and smooth—two or three inches of snow in every groove.

The house was a rough, square, one-storeyed building, roofed over with corrugated iron.

A corrugated iron roof had saved it, they said, although there was a good clearing on either side of the shanty.

It was a dilapidated old shed, and a neat-looking structure with a corrugated iron roof now stood in its place.

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