Usually means: Medieval torture device with spikes.
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  1. iron maiden: Merriam-Webster
  2. iron maiden: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. iron maiden: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. iron maiden: Collins English Dictionary
  5. iron maiden: Vocabulary.com
  6. iron maiden: Wordnik
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  8. iron maiden: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. iron maiden: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. iron maiden: Dictionary.com
  11. Iron Maiden (album), Iron Maiden (band), Iron Maiden (comics), Iron Maiden (disambiguation), Iron Maiden, Iron maiden (disambiguation), Iron maiden (torture), Iron maiden (torture device), Iron maiden, The Iron Maiden: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
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  14. iron maiden: Mnemonic Dictionary
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noun:  (historical) A falsely or neo-medieval torture device invented in the 18th century consisting of a chamber lined with spikes which closes upon and impales the victim inside.

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