stiffener

Example Sentences

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When you screw one side of the angle to the bottom of the seat, the other side of the angle acts as a stiffener.

From Washington Post • Sep. 14, 2018

Sea breezes used to ruffle the models' clothes until someone devised a stiffener to make them lie flat.

From Time Magazine Archive

Soviet troops were just supposed to provide the initial stiffener.

From Time Magazine Archive

Lane fetched the stiffener in a soda-water bottle, and it cleared the legal atmosphere.

From The Book of the Bush Containing Many Truthful Sketches Of The Early Colonial Life Of Squatters, Whalers, Convicts, Diggers, And Others Who Left Their Native Land And Never Returned by Macfarlane, J.

"Weel, that is a stiffener," he said, drawing a long breath.

From A Son of Hagar A Romance of Our Time by Caine, Hall, Sir