[f. FLANGE v. + -ER1.]
1. (See quot.)
1893. Labour Commission, Gloss., Flangers, also called ‘boiler-smiths,’ are men, in the shipbuilding industry, who bend the plate edges where angles cannot be made to fit.
2. U.S. A vertical iron or steel bar for scraping snow and ice from the inside of rail-heads to make room for the wheel-flanges (Standard Dict.).
