1942, Anna Seghers, The Seventh Cross, Monthly Review Press (1987), →ISBN, page 10:
Today I am no longer sure whether the billets we fed to our little castiron stove actually came from that kindling.
1974, Hjalmar Thesan, Country Days: Chronicles of Knysna & the Southern Cape, David Philip (1974), →ISBN, unnumbered page:
Camped around its base and sleeping in a primitive 'skerm' of branches at night, with a bubbling castiron pot over a permanent fire, they would chip away until the great tree was down.
1978, Con Sellers, Marilee, Pocket Books (1978), →ISBN, page 22:
Draping the useless skirt of the ball gown over one arm, she stooped to feed fat pine splinters into the castiron stove.
1986, Donald Hall, The Happy Man: Poems, Random House (1986), →ISBN, page 21:
we add wood to the castiron stove, and midnight's
candlelight trembles on the ceiling
1999, Ken Hodgson, The Hell Benders, Pinnacle Books (1999), →ISBN, page 139:
A large, castiron pot of beef stew was slowly simmering.
1832, William E. Gladstone, diary entry dated May 1832, reprinted in The Gladstone Diaries, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 489:
The drawing or rather carving of the German figures by far harder than anything I had ever seen — they seemed to be made of castiron well starched.
1902, Trumbull White, The World's Progress in Knowledge, Science and Industry: A Vast Treasury and Compendium of the Achievements of Man and the Works of Nature, page 87:
So insensitive is this high explosive that melted castiron may be poured upon a mass of it without causing an explosion.
1989, Popular Science, November 1989, page 133 (advertisement):
Build low-cost safe furnace to melt aluminum, brass, even 20 pounds of castiron!
1991, Robin Clark, Divina Trace, Robin Clark (1991), →ISBN, page 115:
(Of course, they ain't no churchveil in the world could withstand the bruising of a history like the one oldman Salizar and that Mother Maurina gave me later – unless of course it make from castiron – but fortunately enough I haven't heard of none of that nonsense yet.)
1995, Paul Jackson, Smoking Allowed: A Pictorial Past of Honey Bee Smokers in the United States, A.I. Root Company (1995), →ISBN, page 14:
The brackets attaching the fire chamber to the bellows are made from castiron.