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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A bar, usually of iron, with right-angle bends at both ends, used for permanently holding together stones, timber, and other materials used in building.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- See
cramp , n., 2.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An iron
bar , bent atright angles at each end, used to holdmasonry together - noun An arrangement of iron
wedges inserted into acavity to lift heavy stones; alewis
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a strip of metal with ends bent at right angles; used to hold masonry together
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