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See under Bridge.
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a.
Having no bridge; not bridged.
v. t.
Hence: To fix as a charge or burden upon; to load; to encumber; as, to saddle a town with the expense of bridges and highways.
n.
A movable building, of a square form, consisting of ten or even twenty stories and sometimes one hundred and twenty cubits high, usually moved on wheels, and employed in approaching a fortified place, for carrying soldiers, engines, ladders, casting bridges, and other necessaries.
n.
A structure of considerable magnitude, usually with arches or supported on trestles, for carrying a road, as a railroad, high above the ground or water; a bridge; especially, one for crossing a valley or a gorge. Cf. Trestlework.
n.
A tax paid for some liberty or privilege, particularly for the privilege of passing over a bridge or on a highway, or for that of vending goods in a fair, market, or the like.
a.
Passing or flowing through a bridge; -- said of water.
superl.
Conferring safety; securing from harm; not exposing to danger; confining securely; to be relied upon; not dangerous; as, a safe harbor; a safe bridge, etc.
imp. & p. p.
of Bridge
a.
Characterized by ruin; ruined; dilapidated; as, an edifice, bridge, or wall in a ruinous state.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Bridge
v. t.
To open or make a passage, as by a bridge.
n.
A board or plank used as a bridge.
n.
A fortification commanding the extremity of a bridge nearest the enemy, to insure the preservation and usefulness of the bridge, and prevent the enemy from crossing; a tete-de-pont.
v. t.
To build a bridge or bridges on or over; as, to bridge a river.
a.
Full of bridges.
n.
A movable frame or support for anything, as scaffolding, consisting of three or four legs secured to a top piece, and forming a sort of stool or horse, used by carpenters, masons, and other workmen; also, a kind of framework of strong posts or piles, and crossbeams, for supporting a bridge, the track of a railway, or the like.
n.
The art of making roads or ways for traveling, including the construction of bridges, canals, viaducts, etc.
n.
A bridge keeper; a warden or a guard for a bridge.
n.
A low wall or vertical partition in the fire chamber of a furnace, for deflecting flame, etc.; -- usually called a bridge wall.
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