ironing Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun garments (clothes or linens) that are to be (or have been) ironed
    • there was a basketful of ironing to do
  2. noun the work of using heat to smooth washed clothes in order to remove any wrinkles
  3. verb press and smooth with a heated iron
    press; iron; iron out.
    • press your shirts
    • she stood there ironing

WordNet

I"ron*ing noun
Definitions
  1. The act or process of smoothing, as clothes, with hot flatirons.
  2. The clothes ironed.

Webster 1913