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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Any metallic bar of arched shape, as the iron bar taking the place of a brick arch over the ash-pit door of some furnaces.
  • noun The upper member of a curved truss.
  • noun A wrought-iron bar extending from the bolster of a car-truck each way to the top of the journal-boxes.

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