What is "catwalks"

Usage examples of "catwalks".

Everyone who could pack themselves onto the catwalks was there when the sunlight suddenly forced its way past the clouds, throwing back the gloom, and the view outside the Mission appeared again.

It was divided up into garage-sized compartments that were open on top, and you could get around between them on catwalks that ran on top of the partitions.

Prince and councillor climbed up to the catwalks that circled the main wall of the inner ward and leaned onto it, looking down the long slope of the grassy hill.

Together they climbed a wooden ladder to the catwalks that ran just below the top of the stonework.

He was staring at the town wall, where lantern light bloomed on the catwalks as the town watch took up their posts.

Latticeworks of girders and metal tubing adorned its sides in irregular and untidy clusters, in some places extending fully from floor to roof, supporting a confusion of catwalks, ladders, platforms, ramps, rigs, and winches wreathed intermittently in bewildering tangles of hydraulic and pneumatic feed tubes, ventilator pipes and electrical supply lines.

Bow and stern were much higher, and were connected by catwalks crossing above the tanks.

Bob obeyed the injunction to say on the catwalks, but his eyes roved eagerly over the dials in front of the engineer.

A hasty trip along the catwalks took them to the bow, from which an unobstructed view could be had of the north reef and lagoon.

The nearest was too far away for small details to be made out, but the Hunter was pretty sure it was covered by a roof consisting mostly of glass panes, while small square superstructures at various points were connected by catwalks to each other and to a diminutive landing stage on the side toward the channel.