A protruding rim or edge on an object, typically used to strengthen it or attach it to something else.
Possibly variant or shortened form related to 'flange.' Used in technical and industrial contexts to describe structural elements.
This might be a regional or technical variant of 'flange' that didn't make it into standard dictionaries, showing how working-class technical vocabularies often have words the formal world forgets.
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