cramp iron

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   a strip of metal with ends bent at right angles; used to hold masonry together

   Synonymscramp

   Broaderstrip

Questions about cramp iron

What does cramp iron mean?

cramp iron means "a strip of metal with ends bent at right angles; used to hold masonry together".

What is another word for cramp iron?

Close synonyms include cramp. 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 cramp iron a common word?

cramp 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.