English
Noun
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- Anything added to something in order to stiffen it, such as a support beam, or starch for a collar.
#*1856: Charles Dickens, Sketches by Boz: Illustrative of Every-day Life & Every-day People 1
#*:... he wears a wisp of black silk round his neck, without any stiffener, as an apology for a neckerchief...
#*1901: James Nisbit Hazlehurst, Towers and Tanks for Water-works: The Theory and Practice of Their Design and Construction 2
#*:...each of these stiffener-columns must be designed to resist approximately 26 tons. Sometimes single angles are thus used as stiffeners...
#*1904: Edward L. Attwood, War-ships: A Text-book on the Construction, Protection, Stability, Turning, Etc., of War Vessels 3
#*:The tee bar (b) is used as a stiffener to important bulkheads...
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