pressing iron

The whirring of four electric sewing machines, snips from two industrial-sized scissors and the sizzle of moist fabric as steam billows from a large pressing iron.

Alice refolded the cloth around the handle of the pressing iron.

Alice slammed the pressing iron down.

He is selling a fraction of his collection on Wednesday and Thursday at the annual convention of the Pressing Iron and Trivet Collectors of America in the town of Evansville, in southwest Indiana.

In response, a stout figure, clad only in an undershirt, trousers and a pair of carpet slippers, laid down a pressing iron and shuffled toward the visitors.