angle iron

1. 1.

   an L-shaped metal bracket

   Synonymsangle bracket

   Broaderbracket

Questions about angle iron

What does angle iron mean?

angle iron means "an L-shaped metal bracket".

What is another word for angle iron?

Close synonyms include angle bracket. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is angle iron a common word?

angle iron is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.