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No iron tool of any kind was employed in the building of the Temple in order that quiet and reverence might prevail.
(Source: Masonic dictionary)
There's a conversaton on this list about the pronunciation of this word. Since that long-ago time, I found out that "i-ern" is a quite common pronunciation in the United States, while "i-ron" is more common in the U.K. (don't know where else, perhaps Australia?).
Just thought I'd mention it. Don't have the book with me so I can't cite it here just yet, but I will if anyone's interested.
Fe.
A traditional unit of measure for the thickness of leather used in making shoes, especially soles. One iron is equal to 1/48 inch (0.5292 millimeter), so a sole that's 1/4-inch thick is described as "12 iron."
Can be spelled with the Periodic Table of Elements symbols: IrON