1. metal devices used for pressing clothes to remove wrinkles
Usage: plural form
2. metal shackles or chains used to restrain prisoners
Usage: often in phrase ‘in irons’
3. golf clubs with metal heads, numbered according to the angle of the face
Usage: golf

Examples

• She heated the irons before pressing her shirt.
• The laundry room had several steam irons available.
• The prisoner was kept in irons during transport.
• He was clapped in irons for his crimes.
• She selected a seven iron for the approach shot.
• His golf bag contained a full set of irons.
• The old irons needed to be replaced with newer models.