Crossword clues for gantry
gantry
- Support for a travelling crane
- Sinclair Lewis' 'Elmer '
- Sinclair Lewis preacher Elmer __
- Railroad signal scaffold
- Overhead structure for a crane or railroad signals
- Launch site sight
- Launch pad sight
- Fire-and-brimstone Elmer
- Bridgelike framework
- Bridge-like overhead structure, supporting cameras etc
- Bridge-like overhead structure
- Another Sinclair Lewis hero
- Framework over railroad tracks
- 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.
- Missile-launching frame
- Lewis's Elmer
- Good worker on railway platform
- Metal framework supporting something
- Overhead structure supporting equipment
- Support structure
- Sinclair Lewis' Elmer
- Cape Canaveral sight
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gantry \Gan"try\, n. See Gauntree.
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 to kanthelion "rafter," of unknown origin. The connecting notion in all this seems to be framework for carrying things. Meaning "frame for a crane, etc." is from 1810. Railway signal sense attested by 1889. Derivation from tree (n.) + gawn "small bucket," an obsolete 16c. contraction of gallon, might be folk-etymology.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A framework of steel bars resting on side supports to bridge over or around something. 2 A supporting framework for a barrel. 3 A gantry crane or gantry scaffold. 4 (''medical imaging'') A cylindrical scanner assembly in the bore of which the response of bodies or tissues to some specific exposure can be detected for 3D imaging.
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]
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 railway signals are posted
- Gantry (medical imaging), cylindrical scanner assembly in the bore of which the response of bodies or tissues to some specific exposure can be detected for 3D-imaging.
- Gantry tower, a structure commonly found in electrical substation or transmission line
See also:
- Elmer Gantry, a 1927 novel by Sinclair Lewis
- Elmer Gantry (film), a 1960 film based on the novel
- Scaffolding - occasionally referred to as a gantry when used as a support framework
A gantry (also known as a sign holder, road sign holder, sign structure or road sign structure) is a traffic sign assembly in which signs are mounted on an overhead support, or railway signals supported.
Gantries are usually built on high-traffic roads or routes with several lanes, where signs posted on the side of the highway would be hard for drivers to see. Gantries may be cantilevered or one sided on the left, right and center (sometimes referred to as a half-gantry or Butterfly gantry), or they may be bridges with poles on each side. Similar gantries are used in railway signalling on multi-track lines.
Gantry is a musical with a book by Peter Bellwood, lyrics by Fred Tobias, and music by Stanley Lebowsky.
Based on the 1927 novel Elmer Gantry by Sinclair Lewis, it tells the story of a womanizing, self-righteous, self-proclaimed preacher who joins forces with a female evangelist to sell religion to small-town America.
After 31 previews, the Broadway production, directed and choreographed by Onna White, opened on February 14, 1970 at the George Abbott Theatre, where it closed after one performance. The cast included Robert Shaw, Rita Moreno, Ted Thurston, and Beth Fowler.
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.