gal-iron

English

Etymology

Shortening.

Noun

gal-iron (uncountable)

  1. (Australia, colloquial) Galvanized iron.
    • 1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber 2003, p. 12:
      She eliminated those lonely treeless farmhouses with the sun beating on their shining gal-iron roofs.

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