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.

Anagrams

• garlion, groinal, rangoli