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skew bridges

skew bridges is the plural of skew bridge.

Meaning of 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
    Synonyms:
    oblique bridge

Questions about skew bridges

What is skew bridges the plural of?
Skew bridges is the plural of skew bridge.

Words near skew bridges in the dictionary

  1. skew arch
  2. skew arches
  3. skew bevel gear
  4. skew bevel gears
  5. skew bridge
  6. skew bridges
  7. skew chisel
  8. skew chisels
  9. skew curve
  10. skew curves
  11. skew field

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