"running iron" meaning in English

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        {
          "ref": "2007, Philip Ashton Rollins, The Cowboy, page 183",
          "text": "So flagrantly did these gentlemen miswield the “running iron,” that several States eventually forbade its use by anybody, and everywhere its mere possession gave rise to suspicion.",
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      "glosses": [
        "A branding iron which is not bent into the shape of the mark but rather requires the user to write the desired brand (and thus allows writing any brand)."
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          "branding iron"
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  "word": "running iron"
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        "A branding iron which is not bent into the shape of the mark but rather requires the user to write the desired brand (and thus allows writing any brand)."
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