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angle iron

noun
|Updated on: 5 May 2018

Definition of angle iron

1 : an iron cleat for joining parts of a structure at an angle
2 : a piece of structural steel rolled with an L-shaped section

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First Known Use of angle iron

circa 1846

in the meaning defined at sense 1

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