Brewer's: Corrugated Iron

Sheet iron coated with zinc. It is called corrugated or wrinkled because the sheet is made wavy by the rollers between which it is made to pass.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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