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BEAM |
Girder |
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CANTILEVER |
Projecting girder |
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TWISTER |
A girder. |
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CROSSBEAM |
A girder. |
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GIRTH |
A small horizontal brace or girder. |
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TRUSS |
To strengthen or stiffen, as a beam or girder, by means of a
brace or braces. |
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HEADWAY |
Clear space under an arch, girder, and the like,
sufficient to allow of easy passing underneath. |
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DEFLECTION |
The bending which a beam or girder undergoes from its
own weight or by reason of a load. |
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MORTISE |
To join or fasten by a tenon and mortise; as, to
mortise a beam into a post, or a joist into a girder. |
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TEMPLET |
A short piece of timber, iron, or stone, placed in a wall
under a girder or other beam, to distribute the weight or pressure. |
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SPAN |
The spread or extent of an arch between its abutments, or
of a beam, girder, truss, roof, bridge, or the like, between its
supports. |
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CAMBER |
An upward concavity in the under side of a beam, girder, or
lintel; also, a slight upward concavity in a straight arch. See
Hogback. |
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FLITCH |
One of several planks, smaller timbers, or iron plates,
which are secured together, side by side, to make a large girder or
built beam. |
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WEB |
The thin vertical plate or portion connecting the upper and
lower flanges of an lower flanges of an iron girder, rolled beam, or
railroad rail. |
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BOLSTER |
A plate of iron or a mass of wood under the end of a
bridge girder, to keep the girder from resting directly on the
abutment. |
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GAIN |
A square or beveled notch cut out of a girder, binding joist,
or other timber which supports a floor beam, so as to receive the end
of the floor beam. |
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TAIL-BAY |
One of the joists which rest one end on the wall and the
other on a girder; also, the space between a wall and the nearest
girder of a floor. Cf. Case-bay. |
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BREASTSUMMER |
A summer or girder extending across a building flush
with, and supporting, the upper part of a front or external wall; a
long lintel; a girder; -- used principally above shop windows. |
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GIRDER |
...the same office, technically called a
compound girder. See Illusts. of Frame, and Doubleframed floor, under
Double. ... |
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SUMMER |
... cross vault.
(c) A central floor timber, as a girder, or a piece reaching from a
wall to a girder. Called also summertree. ... |