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Overhead structure for a crane or railroad signals
Answer for the clue "Overhead structure for a crane or railroad signals ", 6 letters:
gantry
Alternative clues for the word gantry
- A framework of steel bars raised on side supports to bridge over or around something
- Overhead structure supporting equipment
- Bridge-like overhead structure, supporting cameras etc
- Sinclair Lewis' Elmer
- Can display railway signals above several tracks or can support a traveling crane etc.
- Sinclair Lewis preacher Elmer __
Word definitions for gantry in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gantry \Gan"try\, n. See Gauntree .
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a framework of steel bars raised on side supports to bridge over or around something; can display railway signals above several tracks or can support a traveling crane etc. [syn: gauntry ]
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Between them girders and gantries of black iron ran like gigantic roadways spanning gulfs of empty air. ▪ Birkwood Lock, the first mechanized lock with control tower and traffic light gantry . ▪ He climbed away from their reaching ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Gantry may refer to: Gantry crane , a crane having a hoist fitted in a trolley for parallel movement Gantry (rocketry) , the frame which encloses and services a rocket at its launch pad Gantry (road sign) , an overhead assembly on which highway signs or ...
Usage examples of gantry.
Gantry lights showed the pace of the ashfall was slowing, as was the rain.
At one end of the field the tall white cutter was being serviced by a rolling gantry, while the fat cislunar tug which was allegedly being hijacked was sitting all by itself at the opposite corner of the field, illuminated by floodlights.
In the flat distance, the most prominent landmark of Baikonur Cosmodrome showed-a gantry complex of squat, girdered towers.
Of course, for the launch itself, an immense amount of energy is required, so some of the Ethyls are actually part of the gantry apparatus, hooked up to the Painships to provide adequate power for lift-off.
The gantry Ethyls had already been taken from their fuel cells and were in place at the base of the Painship.
Scanning the gantry, he guessed that when pushed he could reel off the names of over two dozen malts, straight from memory.
Wade and Bryan were probably headed to Daytona Beach, and Sarah was most likely asleep within the titanium bowels of the space shuttle gantry.
The suspension towers rose like the bones of some incalculably huge dinosaur above deserted asphalt lanes and side gantries lined with unidentifiable detritus.
I saw lights gathered like icy fruit on gantries and the undersides of landing pads, the distended belly of the vessel curving up on either side and then we were past.
Pipit curved away from the skeletal gantries of Mojave Verde, back toward the coast.
The mist hung in gray, ragged curtains from the fronds of the huge tree-ferns, condensed in clammy drops that spattered down to the apron from cranes and gantries, from the overhead structures of machines that still functioned, somehow, in spite of their being overgrown with densely intertwined creepers.
Only a few emergency lights blinked along its dark station gantries and bristling weapons towers.
She made her way quickly, down and through gantries, up through catwalks.
She studied the docks, gantries, and warehouses down by the shoreline.
To them, Robertson was just another Southern-ftled Elmer Gantry bigot with a slick line of LordyJesus hoodoo who could hypnotize a couple of million American goobers into turning over their bank accounts to the savvy Scots.