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angle iron

[ang-guhl ahy-ern] / ˈæŋ gəl ˌaɪ ərn /
NOUN
l-shaped metal bracket
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Dad had decided it was time to salvage the angle iron stacked all around the farm.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover

He had been allowed to keep the angle iron, and it was now stacked—four hundred thousand pounds of it—in tangled mountains all over the yard.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover

Dad picked up a six-foot length of angle iron and handed me the end.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover

The writer, of course, means to be understood as speaking of the labor 27 in putting the ship together, having the material in shape of angle iron, plates, &c., &c., already prepared.

From Free Ships: The Restoration of the American Carrying Trade by Codman, John

These are received upon a railway made of two strips of angle iron of the proper gauge for the wheels, and are locked fast by a latch falling over their ends.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 5 "Clervaux" to "Cockade" by Various



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