Distinguish from Ironwood, various species of tree with very hard wood.
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Wooden iron (German: hölzernes Eisen) is a polemical term often used in philosophical rhetoric to describe the impossibility of an opposing argument. The term is a German proverbial oxymoron, which synthesizes the concept of the "wooden", which is organic, with the concept of "iron" which is inorganic. Such a contradictio in adjecto is a logical inconsistency. It occurs when a modifying adjective opposes its noun, as in "square circle," "freezing fire," "boiling snow," or "hard liquid."
Distinguish from Ironwood, various species of tree with very hard wood. Woodeniron (German: hölzernes Eisen) is a polemical term often used in philosophical...
Wooden Ships and Iron Men is a naval board wargame simulating naval combat during the Age of Sail that was published by Battleline Publications in 1974...
designer Alan Schilke, and reopened as Iron Rattler. RMC installed their patented I-Box track onto Rattler's existing wooden structure, increasing the drop height...
would refurbish the wooden structure, and site preparation began in late 2018. In 2019, Busch Gardens announced the replacement as Iron Gwazi, a steel-tracked...
Abbasid vizier Ibn al-Zayyat is said to have created a "wooden oven-like chest that had iron spikes" for torture, which would ironically be used during...
discovered in 1896 in Three Tuns, Pennsylvania, United States Iron wood (disambiguation) Woodeniron, a polemical term often used in philosophical rhetoric to...
protected by steel or iron armor constructed from 1859 to the early 1890s. The ironclad was developed as a result of the vulnerability of wooden warships to explosive...
horses but in modern farms are drawn by tractors. A plough may have a wooden, iron or steel frame with a blade attached to cut and loosen the soil. It has...
Museum European wooden cannon. Muzzle diameter: 90 mm. Wooden barrel with thin iron insert and iron rings supporting the barrel. Germanisches Nationalmuseum...
used for throwing, usually a light spear or javelin made up of a wooden handle with an iron tip. The use of various types of the assegai was widespread all...
typically a row of closely placed, high vertical standing tree trunks or wooden or iron stakes used as a fence for enclosure or as a defensive wall. Palisades...
wheels to roll upon. Early tracks were constructed with wooden or cast iron rails, and wooden or stone sleepers; since the 1870s, rails have almost universally...
corrugated cardboard, extruded polystyrene foam, or thin wooden slats. Can also be built with staggered wooden blocks. Hollow-core molded doors are commonly used...
rails made wholly of iron were invented. In 1760, the Coalbrookdale Iron Works began to reinforce their wooden-railed tramway with iron bars, which were found...
A wooden roller coaster is a type of roller coaster classified by its wooden track, which consists of running rails made of flat steel strips mounted on...
carved from a larger piece. Wooden spoons were easy to carve and thus inexpensive, making them common throughout history. The Iron Age Celts (c. 250 BC) of...
maritime contexts in which the term originates, a bollard is either a wooden or iron post found as a deck-fitting on a ship or boat, and used to secure ropes...
An iron lung is a type of negative pressure ventilator (NPV), a mechanical respirator which encloses most of a person's body and varies the air pressure...
materials driven into the wedge-shaped seams between boards on wooden boats or ships. Cast iron sewerage pipes were formerly caulked in a similar way. Riveted...
all iron beds now have a beech wood sprung slatted base in a steel framework which gives support to all types of mattresses. These beds have a wooden framework...
implies one constructed of wood. A wooden crate has a self-supporting structure, with or without sheathing. For a wooden container to be a crate, all six...
it is made of iron, but because its color resembles that of iron. It is a brick pagoda tower built on the location of a previous wooden one that had been...
construction, i.e. they had an iron keel, stem and stern posts, and iron framing, with wooden planking retained over the iron frames. Ariel class Coquette (1871)...
A clothes iron (also flatiron, smoothing iron, dry iron, steam iron or simply iron) is a small appliance that, when heated, is used to press clothes to...
timbers in wooden vessels and the deck planking of iron and steel ships. Oakum was also used in plumbing for sealing joints in cast iron pipe, and in...