All 4 Uses of
wrought
in
Babbitt
- With front wheels nicking the wrought-steel bumper of the car in front, he stopped, feverishly cramped his steering-wheel, slid back into the vacant space and, with eighteen inches of room, manoeuvered to bring the car level with the curb.†
Chpt 3
- The open beams had been hand-adzed at Jake Offutt's car-body works, the hinge; were of hand-wrought iron, the wainscot studded with handmade wooden pegs, and at one end of the room was a heraldic and hooded stone fireplace which the club's advertising-pamphlet asserted to be not only larger than any of the fireplaces in European castles but of a draught incomparably more scientific.†
Chpt 5
- Though she was the daughter of Howard Littlefield, that wrought-iron fact-mill, that horse-faced priest of private ownership, Eunice was a midge in the sun.†
Chpt 18
- And in her state, so wrought-up and weak—†
Chpt 33 *
Definition:
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(wrought as in: wrought iron) worked -- as when iron is shaped to fit by bending or beating