Crossword clues for stiffener
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stiffener \Stiff"en*er\, n. One who, or that which, stiffens anything, as a piece of stiff cloth in a cravat.
Wiktionary
n. Anything added to something in order to stiffen it, such as a support beam, or starch for a collar.
WordNet
n. material used for stiffening something
Usage examples of "stiffener".
They'd taken normal TNT and added a stiffener, a plastic that made the material quite rigid, but without affecting its chemical properties.
Its full attention was apparently on Kolchin, watching as the bodyguard probed his strip of collar stiffener delicately inside the small crack he'd opened in the lock's cover plate.
One small envelope with a stiffener to prevent bending, with glassine interleafs for the mint copies, you can walk around with a half million dollars.
Those convergent ribs are no doubt the stiffeners with which the sails are controlled.
However, to my knowledge, the stiffeners and bracing that supported them also buttressed other important structures on the ships, and had been carried through each successive model to the most modern MK V-B marks, although no frontline Starfuries had carried HyperTorps anywhere for nearly two years.