angle iron

noun

angle iron

noun
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Idiomatic A length of iron or steel (now usually steel), having an L-shaped cross section, used as a structural component, support, or mending brace.

  • The homestead […] was of corrugated iron on an angle-iron frame.1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter VII, in Capricornia, page 92:

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