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running iron en · NOUN

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1. A branding iron which is not bent into the shape of the mark but rather requires the user to write the desired brand (and thus allows writing any brand).
   • So flagrantly did these gentlemen miswield the “running iron,” that several States eventually forbade its use by anybody, and everywhere its mere possession gave rise to suspicion. 2007, Philip Ashton Rollins, The Cowboy, page 183:

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