ironworker

[ ahy-ern-wur-ker ]

/ ˈaɪ ərnˌwɜr kər /

a worker in iron.

a person employed in an ironworks.

a person who works with structural steel.

Origin of ironworker

late Middle English word dating back to 1400–50; see origin at iron, worker

i·ron·work·ing, noun

Then, last September, ironworker James Brady parachuted from the top of One World Trade Center, filming his dramatic descent.

The Best of the Beast, March 23-29 | |March 30, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
He was working somewhere in Fort Worth as a manual laborer, some ironworker.

Warren Commission (9 of 26): Hearings Vol. IX (of 15) |The President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy
The Ironworker had disappeared; neither was the old woman there to receive him with the hostile glare of her single eye.

The Dead Command |Vicente Blasco Ibez
Machinery and long processes of work have greatly changed the work of the carpenter, the ironworker and the shoemaker.

The Negro Problem |Booker T. Washington, et al.

Perhaps the Ironworker had locked himself in his house on seeing him approach, so that further waiting would be useless.

The Dead Command |Vicente Blasco Ibez
He glanced uneasily at the Ironworker, who was behind him, the last to take his leave.

The Dead Command |Vicente Blasco Ibez

ironworker

/ (ˈaɪənˌwɜːkə) /

a person who works in an ironworks

a person who makes articles of iron