several variations and have thus been called by many names:

* Flatiron (American English), flat iron (British English) or smoothing iron
: The general name for a hand-held iron consisting simply of a handle and a solid, flat, metal base, and named for the flat ironing face used to smooth clothes.
* Sad iron or sadiron
: Mentioned above, meaning "solid" or heavy iron, where the base is a solid block of metal, sometimes used