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eating irons

noun

Definitions

  1. Knife, fork and spoon

    Knife, fork and spoon; cutlery.

    • But I had the unmitigated pleasure of watching a family of four Chinese struggle to use knives and forks to their bacon and eggs. These were the first eating irons I had seen in a long while.
    • Eating irons in hand, we plonked ourselves down at the round six-seating dining table and thrashed out the ethics of my decision to change football teams.

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