bridgings

Noun

bridging (plural bridgings)

1. The act of building a bridge.
   • With him were 60,000 combat engineers for multiple bridgings of the river, and hundreds of thousands of tons of supplies, landing craft, and amphibious vehicles.2007, Stanley Weintraub, 15 Stars: Eisenhower, MacArthur, Marshall, page 325
2. The system of bracing used between floor or other timbers to distribute the weight.
   • All the joists and bridgings of the mezzanine floor to have stout double herringbone strutting not more than 6 feet apart.1860, Thomas Leverton Donaldson, William Cunningham Glen, Handbook of Specifications, page 319

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