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corrugated iron en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) An iron sheet building material, usually galvanised, which has been pressed into corrugations.
    • On reaching the slip, the barrow was wheeled off the truck onto a scaffolding gantry built out over the wall, and the concrete tipped down a corrugated iron chute on to a steel plate. 1959 December 14, Richard Hope, “Narrow Gauge Landslip”, in Railway Magazine, page 866:
    • A special reserved enclosure with sandbags and a corrugated iron roof was set aside for three members of the Royal Family. 1929, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, When the World Screamed:

Translations (26)

fr tôle ondulée (building material) · th เมทัลชีต (building material) · nrf fielle dé zîn (building material) · no bølgeblikk (building material) · cmn 波紋鋼 /波纹钢 (building material) · ga iarann roctha (building material) · mi rino kōwakawaka (building material) · fi aaltopelti (building material) · ja 海鼠板 (building material) · ja トタン (building material) · gd iarann preasach (building material) · ru рифлёное желе́зо (building material) · hu hullámlemez (building material) · is bárujárn (building material) · cmn 鐵皮 /铁皮 (building material) · de Wellblech (building material) · tr oluklu sac (building material) · cmn 波紋鐵 /波纹铁 (building material) · nn bølgjeblekk (building material) · urk ตีมะฮ (building material) · pt ferro corrugado (building material) · ru гофри́рованное желе́зо (building material) · th สังกะสี (building material) · da bølgeblik (building material) · hu hullámpala (building material) · ga iarann rocach (building material)