Although the early sharpie probably resembled the flatiron skiff in her hull shape, she was primarily a sailing boat rather than a rowing or combination rowing-sailing craft.
Flatiron skiffs were sharp-bowed, usually with square, raked transom stern, and their rigs varied according to their size and to suit the occupation in which they were employed.
An Ornamental Metal Flatiron Holder This antique iron holder or stand can be easily constructed by the amateur bent-iron worker.
Flexible-Cord Adjuster for an Electrical Flatiron [Illustration] When using an electrical flatiron the flexible cord frequently gets under the iron, causing much trouble for the user, and mussing up the clothing.
The parchment can be either laid on a hot plate or pressed with a hot flatiron between two sheets of paper.
The wagon road suddenly broke off short and plumb as if you tossed a biscuit over the edge of the Flatiron roof.
In an instant he caught up the hot flatiron off the stove, and out he ran.
Then, before the fox could get at the monkey boy the goose gentleman had put the hot flatiron on the ice in the tub, taking care not to burn Jumpo.
The surface of the flatiron is a sandy plain with scattering oaks, and sloping towards the east.
An inverted flatiron pointing to the east of south--that is the battle ground of Tippecanoe.
In a few moments the car started, and as they passed around the Flatiron Building Jack was still further amazed to recognize in the voice of the lecturer none other than that of the faithful puss.
Did you hear my wails from the Flatiron building down?
Here and there in the Metropolitan and Flatiron buildings shone an isolated and belated window light.
I saw that naked man run across Fifth Avenue from the door of the Flatiron Building.
To prove that he is able to make good his mad threats he states that at noon exactly, to-day, he will cause the death of the chief executive of a great insurance company whose offices are in the Flatiron Building.
That means this ape is armed with metal fingernails, just like the one that killed the insurance man in the Flatiron Building.
He wished he knew all that had led up to that story he had read in the paper just prior to the appearance of the naked man from the west door of the Flatiron Building.
And the naked man was killed in the Flatiron Building, which is well downtown in its turn.
His body passed over the railing of the subway entrance before the Flatiron Building and Bentley knew he had crashed to his death on the steps.
From the west door of the Flatiron Building emerged a grim apparition of a man.
The streets were in confusion about him, the sky was in turmoil above him, and the Flatiron building, which seemed about to blow down, threw water like a mill-shoot.
Iron Rest for an Ironing Board [288] A flatiron rest can be made on an ironing-board by driving a number of large tacks into one end of the board.
A Flatiron Rest [19] The iron rest and wall hanger shown in the sketch is made of sheet iron.
To keep the pan from sliding place a flatiron or some other weight on it.
When they reached the edge of the mesa that looked down on the Flatiron the moon was out and the valley was swimming in light.
By this time the men from the Flatiron were appearing, armed with such weapons as they could hastily gather.
The engine and the express car were sent back to join the rest of the train and as soon as they were out of sight the robbers set out across country toward the Flatiron ranch.
But on this Flatiron corner there stood just one thing.
There was no tower there and no Flatiron building here beside us.
He sat down in Madison Square Park and looked at the Flatiron Building with a leisurely eye.
XVII Hugo sat in Madison Square Park giving his attention in a circuit to the Flatiron Building, the clock on the Metropolitan Tower, and the creeping barrage of traffic that sent people scampering, stopped, moved forward again.
The western wall of the Flatiron Building has its autumnal colorings; and though the first snow fall may be black mud by noon, at sun-up those brick-bounded areas laugh in white and the aged trees arch their fantastic tracery.
Have you seen it with the last pink glow of sunset upon it, and upon the western wall of the Flatiron Building, and upon nothing else, all lower buildings being in shadows of obscuring twilight?
Reaching Madison Square, at last, I walked out under the trees, as I almost always do, to have a look at the Flatiron Building, white against the sky.
We are now to consider whether we shall buy a vacuum cleaner or a broom and dustpan; a washing machine and electric flatiron or the services of a washerwoman, or shall telephone the laundry to call for the wash.
The body should have what is known as a flatiron shape, that is, should be broad at the shoulders and taper toward the tail.
In consequence, many practical applications of electricity are possible, among which are flatiron and toaster.
A flatiron is heated by conduction, the heat from the warm stove passing into the cold flatiron and gradually heating it.
The flatiron heats slowly and cools slowly, and, because of its high specific heat, not only supplies the laundress with considerable heat, but eliminates for her the frequent changing of the flatiron.
Listening again, she heard the sound of a flatironthumping an ironing board.
She knocked, and the door was opened by a little middle-aged woman who held a hot flatiron in one hand.
If you should put a hot brick or a hot flatiron at your back and another at your feet, it'd help.
I was a tellin' her that a hot brick or a flatiron at her feet and another at the small of her back would help.
The soldiery of the village gathered into knots and groups and bunches, and the firing up the hill ceased, and every one except the crew of the flatiron yelled aloud.
The flatiron dropped down over the tail of the shoal, exactly where the buoy had been, and backed once before Bai-Jove-Judson was satisfied.
Then he found a river full of the smell of fever and mud, with green stuff growing far into its waters, and a current that made the flatiron gasp and grunt.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "flatiron" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
