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flat jack

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flat jack [¦flat ¦jak]
(civil engineering)
A hollow steel cushion which is made of two nearly flat disks welded around the edge and which can be inflated with oil or cement under controlled pressure; used at the arch abutments and crowns to relieve the load on the formwork at the moment of striking the formwork.
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