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Bailey bridges

Bailey bridges is the plural of Bailey bridge.

Meaning of Bailey bridge

Noun

Bailey bridge (plural Bailey bridges)

  1. A portable, prefabricated truss bridge, designed for use by military engineering units.
    • ■ More than 1,200 Bailey Bridges, a system developed by the British but also used by the Americans, were constructed, principally for use by the railways.2023 June 28, Christian Wolmar, “The railway's crucial role in the Normandy invasion”, in RAIL, number 986, page 45

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What is Bailey bridges the plural of?
Bailey bridges is the plural of Bailey bridge.

Words near Bailey bridges in the dictionary

  1. bailer
  2. bailers
  3. bailes
  4. bailey
  5. Bailey bridge
  6. Bailey bridges
  7. Bailey County
  8. Bailey Island
  9. Bailey's beads
  10. Bailey-Borwein-Plouffe formula
  11. baileychlore

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