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Bridge-like overhead structure
Answer for the clue "Bridge-like overhead structure ", 6 letters:
gantry
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Word definitions for gantry in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also gauntree , 1570s, "four-footed stand for a barrel," probably from Old North French gantier (Old French chantier , 13c., "store-room, stock-room"), from Latin cantherius "rafter, frame," also "a gelding," from Greek kanthelios "pack ass," which is related ...
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.