GNU Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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   Bridle iron (). (Arch.) A strong flat bar of iron, so bent as to support, as in a stirrup, one end of a floor timber, etc., where no sufficient bearing can be had; -- called also stirrup and hanger.
   
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   Hanger (-ẽr), n.
   1. One who hangs, or causes to be hanged; a hangman.
   
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   2. That by which a thing is suspended. Especially: (a) A strap hung to the girdle, by which a dagger or sword is suspended. (b) (Mach.) A part that suspends a journal box in which shafting runs. See Illust. of Countershaft. (c) A bridle iron.
   
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   3. That which hangs or is suspended, as a sword worn at the side; especially, in the 18th century, a short, curved sword.
   
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   4. A steep, wooded declivity. [Eng.]  Gilbert White.
   
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