fleshing iron
n.— «Twelve-year-old Trent Hall watched in fascination as blacksmith Charlie Bradley, of Culloden, W.Va., took a length of hot iron and forged it into a fleshing iron—that’s another name for a big, long fork.» —“Vesuvius Festival draws good crowd” by Teresa Moore Ironton Tribune (Ohio) June 23, 2007. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
Is the brand in brand-new connected to the kind of brand left by a hot iron? This is part of a complete episode. Transcript of “”Brand” in “Brand New”” Hello, welcome to A Way with Words. Hi, this is Giovanni Cruz...
Aravind from Frisco, Texas, asks about wordsmithing, a verb for rephrasing, tightening, and choosing words more carefully. Wordsmith has been around since at least the mid-19th century, built on the older -smith pattern in words such as blacksmith...