skew bridge

Noun

skew bridge (plural skew bridges)

1. A bridge built obliquely from bank to bank, as sometimes required in railway or highway engineering.
   • Just beyond Widmerpool the railway crosses the Roman Fosse Way on the skew. In The Midland Railway: Its Rise and Progress Frederick S. Williams wrote in 1877 that "in reverence to the past, the Midland acquiesced in the matter of a skew bridge, so that the lengthy straight course of the Fosse Way...1959 June, J. F. Oxley, D. R. Smith, “The Nottingham-Kettering line of the L.M.R.”, in Trains Illustrated, pages 319–320
   • The widening works include the rebuilding of the skew bridge near Northwood to take four tracks, and to enable the Rickmansworth Road to be widened to 60 ft.; […].1959 November, “Notes and News: Harrow-Rickmansworth Widening”, in Railway Magazine, page 802

   Synonyms:

   oblique bridge