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Brace consisting of a longitudinal member to strengthen a fuselage or hull
Answer for the clue "Brace consisting of a longitudinal member to strengthen a fuselage or hull ", 8 letters:
stringer
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Stringer may refer to: Stringer (name) , includes a list of people with the name Stringer (aircraft) , or longeron, a strip of wood or metal to which the skin of an aircraft is fastened Stringer (journalism) , a type of freelance journalist The Stringer ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A good stringer will know the right string and tension for you. ▪ And then hurl that plastic, careful that it lands between the kelp stringers. ▪ Gutting, who earned honors for heaviest stringer , proved the hero with a 2-pounder ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stringer \String"er\ (str[i^]ng"[~e]r), n. One who strings; one who makes or provides strings, especially for bows. Be content to put your trust in honest stringers. --Ascham. A libertine; a wencher. [Obs.] --Beau. & Fl. (Railroad) A longitudinal sleeper. ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 Someone who threads something; one who makes or provides strings, especially for bows. 2 Someone who leads someone along. 3 A horizontal timber that supports upright posts, or supports the hull of a vessel 4 A freelance correspondent not on the regular ...
Usage examples of stringer.
For railway bridges it commonly consists of cross girders, attached to or resting on the main girders, and longitudinal rail girders or stringers carried by the cross girders and directly supporting the sleepers and rails.
Vinod had gone into the Sports Shop, where the dwarf was on friendly terms with the ball boys and the racquet stringers.
As for the ball boys and the racquet stringers, they thought Vinod was cute.
Vinod collected squash-racquet handles from the racquet stringers at the Duckworth Sports Shop.
Sethna disapproved of such violence, and of the Sport Shop racquet stringers who happily provided Vinod with his arsenal of squash-racquet handles.
Only the east side remained unfinished, with three lines of tile in place along the bottom stringers.
Luigi was a spy, or a counterspy, or an operative, or an agent of some strain, or simply a handler or a contact, or maybe a stringer, but he was first and foremost an Italian.
Still, they crisscrossed many stringer routes, and met packtrains and stringer couriers from time to time.
Renouf, who was genuinely fascinated by bomb ketches and very proud of his mortars, regarded 4,000 yards as an acceptable range: the master armourer at Brest had tried out all four mortars at the sea range off Camaret, firing five rounds from each, with the master shipwright in attendance, and going down and inspecting the underdeck stanchions and the stringers after each round was fired.
Europe and the Middle East--our bureau chiefs, correspondents, stringers, fixersasking questions: What have they heard that is fresh or unusual about terrorist activity?
Langstretch ops and stringers, bounty hunters, skip-tracers, informers, stoolies, and such.
A few stringers were in place here and there, she knew, but she felt like the only journalist here who was alive.
He went right around the mountain again three times, and his observations confirmed the disseminated deposit, the ever-present stringers of white in the dark gray rock.
Milling around the open bar were editors, reporters, columnists, one part-time photographer drinking enough for three, stringers from outlying towns, office personnel, adpersons, and the circulation crew.
Duncan was inventing an automatic bean stringer and he only nodded when she told him she would be out for a while.