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• The girders were carefully set in place.From the entry in place
• The bridge used precast concrete girders.From the entry precast
• But engineers who made the paw to the bridge, the girders, don’t remain in history.2009, Tomaž Šalamun, translated by Brian Henry, “[Three poems] The Loire Delta”, in Jacket, number 37, archived from the original on 25…. From the entry spasmodicality
• Each of the bridges consists of six separate girder spans on brick abutments.1959 May, “Talking of Trains: Bethnal Green alterations”, in Trains Illustrated, page 236. From the entry abutment
• The deflections of the girders were precisely in accordance with the calculations of the engineers.1950 March, H. A. Vallance, “On Foot Across the Forth Bridge”, in Railway Magazine, page 148. From the entry deflection
• In design it consists of two continuous box girders of rectangular cross section, one for each track.1946 May and June, “The Why and The Wherefore: Miscellanea”, in Railway Magazine, page 198. From the entry box girder
• The next stage entailed toppling-over each girder into the river by means of hand-winches and pulley-blocks.1946 January and February, “Notes and News: Demolition of Rhydyfelin Viaduct”, in Railway Magazine, page 53. From the entry pulley block
• There are two center and two side sills, all four being fish-belly girders.1905 June 20, “Railroad News. […]”, in The Topeka State Journal, last edition, Topeka, Kan., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3, column 4. From the entry fish-belly girder
• Engineers decided not to use hydraulics, to ensure there was no twisting or buckling to the 80-tonne girder structure.2021 July 14, “Network News: Network Rail engineers raise Machynlleth bridge”, in RAIL, number 935, page 27. From the entry twisting
• The first was that I said my daily mantra, "A writer writes," and reinforced my writing time with steel girders.2009, Julie Reinhardt, She-Smoke. From the entry sandwich time
• Damage to the concrete girderage is caused by resonance set up by the arrangement of axles and girders.1986, Japanese Technical Abstracts, volume 1, numbers 1-2, page 376. From the entry girderage
• Center door and fish-belly girder are later additions.1979, Brian J. Cudahy, “The Birth of the Interborough”, in Under the Sidewalks of New York: The Story of the Greatest Subway System in the…. From the entry fish-belly girder
• With certain girder bridges, the increased clearance is achieved by jacking up the entire superstructure with the bridge deck intact.1958 July, “Bridge Reconstruction for L.M.R. Electrification”, in Railway Magazine, page 488. From the entry jack up
• The hulls are four-compartment vessels with thwartships framing, longitudinally braced, with continuous engineroom girders, "egg-crated" into transverse floors.1950, Pacific Fisherman - Volume 48, page 49. From the entry egg-crate
• The girder bridge at the head of the pass is used as a footbridge, and is roughly decked.1949 November and December, “Notes and News: Festiniog and Welsh Highland Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 409. From the entry footbridge
• Eventually Sir John Fowler's and Sir Benjamin Baker's continuous steel girder bridge on the cantilever principle was adopted.1941 January, the late John Phillimore, “The Forth Bridge 1890-1940”, in Railway Magazine, page 5. From the entry cantilever
• Lundy was the primary backup to both Tector and the starting power forward, a bruising human expressway girder in serial-killer glasses, Bellini.2016, Josh Wilker, “Yips”, in Benchwarmer: A Sports-Obsessed Memoir of Fatherhood, New York, N.Y.: PublicAffairs, →ISBN, page 291. From the entry serial-killer glasses
• After demolition the girders for half the new structure were erected on bedstones already built on the abutments behind the springings of the old arch.1941 February, “Bridge demolition by lifting”, in Railway Magazine, pages 74–75. From the entry springing
• Though less commonly done, it is best to underhang framing pieces — such as letting the girder extend well beyond the end joists if the girder is especially attractive.2005, Steve Cory, Decks: Plan, Design, Build. From the entry underhang
• An all-welded, box section underframe, incorporating box girders which run the full length of the locomotive, is welded to stress-bearing bodysides with partition walls forming reinforcing cross members.1962 June, “Beyond the Channel: U.S.S.R.: A 3,000 h.p. diesel-hydraulic from MaK”, in Modern Railways, page 416. From the entry box girder
• The prototype body, which can take an 11-ton payload, is of aluminium and designed for end loading; it is of semi-integral construction, with sides acting as deep girders.1960 November, “High Hopes for the B.R. Roadrailer”, in Trains Illustrated, page 686. From the entry semi-integral
• From this point of vantage, we were able to gain an impression of the massive outlines of the main structure, and its intricate maze of girders.1950 March, H. A. Vallance, “On Foot Across the Forth Bridge”, in Railway Magazine, page 149. From the entry outline
• Even when trains came in with fresh girders, luftgas, or goldbeater's skin, the quartermaster would only let a little out at a time, and kept the balance in the warehouse.2018, Robyn Bennis, By Fire Above: A Signal Airship Novel, →ISBN, page 34. From the entry goldbeater's skin

Meaning of girder

1. noun A beam of steel, wood, or reinforced concrete, used as a main horizontal support in a building or structure.
2. noun One who girds; a satirist.

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How do you use girder in a sentence?

Girder is used as a noun. For example: “The girders were carefully set in place.”

What is a short sentence with girder?

“The bridge used precast concrete girders.”

What does girder mean?

Girder means a beam of steel, wood, or reinforced concrete, used as a main horizontal support in a building or structure.