girder

IPA: gˈɝdɝ

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

Examples of "girder" in Sentences

It is the introduction of this rigid girder which is responsible for the descriptive generic term of "semi-rigid."
This is due to a folding of the blastodermic wall by what is called the "girder," a plug-shaped growth of Rauber's "roof-layer."
A column or girder which is out of line or plumb not only looks bad but may be required to be removed and corrected by the engineer.
"There it is!" she exclaims, pointing to a dark blob, perched incongruously halfway along the main girder supporting the rig's permanently burning gas flare.
Called the Window on the World, it is a true cabinet of curiosities with more that 800 objects, including a Tay Bridge girder and a 1930s gyrocopter, displayed up to 18 metres high.
The Aussi government recently launched a $12.9 billion program to girder the country's water supplies against climate change and is requiring ongoing climate adaptation reviews every five years.
The wing must also resist twisting forces, done either by a monocoque "D" tube structure forming the leading edge, or by the aforementioned linking two spars in some form of box beam or lattice girder structure.
W.J. M. Rankine proved (_Applied M.chanics_, p. 370) that the necessary strength of a stiffening girder would be only one-seventh part of that of an independent girder of the same span as the bridge, suited to carry the same moving load (not including the dead weight of the girder which is supported by the chain).