
• 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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Bri'dle i`ron (Architecture) 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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In architecture a bridle iron is a strong flat bar of iron, so bent as to provide support, as in a stirrup, one end of a floor timber, etc., where no sufficient bearing can be had.
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