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What (who) is Girder - definition


girder         
(girders)
A girder is a long, thick piece of steel or iron that is used in the framework of buildings and bridges.
N-COUNT
girder         
n.
1.
Main beam.
2.
Sneerer, giber, sarcastic derider.
Girder         
·noun One who girds; a satirist.
II. Girder ·noun One who, or that which, girds.
III. Girder ·noun A main beam; a stright, horizontal beam to span an opening or carry weight, such as ends of floor beams, ·etc.; hence, a framed or built-up member discharging the same office, technically called a compound girder. ·see Illusts. of Frame, and Doubleframed floor, under Double.

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Girder
A girder () is a support beam used in construction. It is the main horizontal support of a structure which supports smaller beams.
Examples of use of Girder
1. The 17 1/2–ton girder began its 145–foot journey on Sunday.
2. High living: For one man the girder is a lunch table, for the other it is somewhere to doze off.
3. "He gets up on my leg and then my shoulder, and he‘s up on the girder," Cassidy said.
4. The robotic arm operators inside the station will move the girder to a location where it can be temporarily parked.
5. He flew to the space station in 2002 and performed two spacewalks to hook up a giant girder and railcar.