T-plate

British

noun

a metal plate shaped like a T used to strengthen or effect a right-angled joint between two beams, etc

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Then the native workmen lost their heads with great shoutings, and Hitchcock's right arm was broken by a falling T-plate, and he buttoned it up in his coat and swooned, and came to and directed for four hours till Peroo, from the top of the crane reported, "All's well," and the plate swung home.

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