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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
Anything added to something in order to stiffen it, such as a support beam, or starch for a collar..
[…] he wears a wisp of black silk round his neck, without any stiffener, as an apology for a neckerchief […]
[…] each of these stiffener-columns must be designed to resist approximately 26 tons. Sometimes single angles are thus used as stiffeners […]
The tee bar (b) is used as a stiffener to important bulkheads […]
[…] with this arrangement the cylinders are cast separately from the saddle, and bolted to the frames on each side with a fabricated stiffener between the frames. This stiffener is carried up to form the saddle for the smokebox, and within it is fitted the exhaust pipes from the cylinders to the blast pipe.
I believe the old man has taken himself off to the nearest bar for a stiffener.
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Stiffener means Anything added to something in order to stiffen it, such as a support beam, or starch for a collar..
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[…] he wears a wisp of black silk round his neck, without any stiffener, as an apology for a neckerchief […]
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