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A structure that allows people or vehicles to cross an obstacle such as a river or canal or railway etc.
Answer for the clue "A structure that allows people or vehicles to cross an obstacle such as a river or canal or railway etc. ", 6 letters:
bridge
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
In graph theory , a bridge , isthmus , cut-edge , or cut arc is an edge of a graph whose deletion increases its number of connected components . Equivalently, an edge is a bridge if and only if it is not contained in any cycle . A graph is said to be bridgeless ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"causeway over a ravine or river," Old English brycge , from Proto-Germanic *brugjo (cognates: Old Saxon bruggia , Old Norse bryggja , Old Frisian brigge , Dutch brug , Old High German brucca , German Brücke ), from PIE root *bhru "log, beam," hence "wooden ...
Usage examples of bridge.
And withal they saw men all armed coming from out the High House, who went down to the Bridge and abode there.
This illustration is not intended to apply to the older bridges with widely distended masses, which render each pier sufficient to abut the arches springing from it, but tend, in providing for a way over the river, to choke up the way by the river itself, or to compel the river either to throw down the structure or else to destroy its own banks.
Brunei constructed the towers and abutments for a suspension bridge of 702 ft.
The substructure of a bridge comprises the piers, abutments and foundations.
Some types of bridge can be built out from the abutments, the completed part forming an erecting stage on which lifting appliances are fixed.
The cost of abutments and bridge flooring is practically independent of the length of span adopted.
The wizard had drawn a seven-pointed star in lime-wash on a slab that had been part of the abutments of the Old Kingdom bridge.
Though the bridge of stone and timber had washed away centuries before, the abutments still remained.
Right now the only one of us tars actually working was Halle, who was chasing down a pool of vomit sicked up by Pael, the Academician, the only non-Navy personnel on the bridge.
Rather than take the time to cross on the bridge, she waded into the acequia, the water coming only to her knees.
I courted her, but she only laughed at me, for an actress, if in love with someone, is a fortress which cannot be taken, unless you build a bridge of gold, and I was not rich.
A single adamantine bridge, a narrow slab of metal without guardrails and wide enough for only two or three men abreast, spanned the moat.
He sat cross-legged on a large rock, near the far end of the adamantine bridge.
He floated to his feet and faced his first challenge, a simple detection spell that would alert the caster if anyone, in any form, crossed the adamantine bridge.
The Bridge over the Abyss was a classic means of progression on the path toward adeptship, but that path was in no wise an easy one.