What is "erecting"

Usage examples of "erecting".

Some types of bridge can be built out from the abutments, the completed part forming an erecting stage on which lifting appliances are fixed.

In bridges so erected the straining action during erection must be studied, and material must be added to resist erecting stresses.

It is a common practice in erecting buildings with a facing of Kentish rag rubble to back up the stonework with bricks.

The convenience of erecting girders on shore is very great, but there is some risk in the floating operations and a good deal of hauling plant is required.

A little later he was occupied in devising improved machines for sawing and bending timber, and in 1811 and 1812 he was employed by the government in erecting saw-mills at Woolwich and Chatham, carrying out at the latter dockyard a complete reorganization of the system for handling timber.

Growse, who was active in erecting public buildings, and in encouraging the local gentry to beautify their own houses.

The arms were soon again in evidence, however, as the machines spun deftly about the rock clearing, first erecting the tent then piling a breastwork of boulders around it.

Hopes, it was said, were given to the king of Sweden, that his concurrence would be gratified by erecting the house of Hesse-Cassel, of which he was head, into a tenth electorate.

Hamilton, governor of Pennsylvania, communicated this intelligence to the assembly of the province, and represented the necessity of erecting truck-houses, or places of strength and security, on the river Ohio, to which the traders might retire in case of insult or molestation.

Here the country affords many conveniences for building ships of war, and erecting forts, docks, quays, and magazines.

The bomb vessels, being placed in the narrow channel of the river leading to Ronfleur, began to throw their shells, and continued the bombardment for two-and-fifty hours, without intermission, during which a numerous body of French troops were employed in throwing up intrenchments, erecting new batteries, and firing both with shot and shells upon the assailants.

The subject of this remonstrance was so pressing and important, that a committee was immediately appointed to take the affair into consideration, and procure an estimate for purchasing lands, and erecting a powder magazine at Purfleet, in Essex, near the banks of the river, together with a guard-house, barracks, and all other necessary conveniences.

These rains being abated by the twenty-sixth day of November, colonel Coote directed the engineers to pitch upon proper places for erecting batteries that should enfilade or flank the works of the garrison, without exposing their own men to any severe fire from the enemy.

The profits were employed in erecting a monument to his fame in Westminster Abbey, a subscription to which his present majesty king George III.

America might be restrained from erecting slitting or rolling-mills, or forges for plating iron, as they would interfere with the manufacturers of Great Britain.