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A truss, framed with a king-post; -- used in roofs, bridges, etc.
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A soldier detailed or employed to form roads, dig trenches, and make bridges, as an army advances.
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Full of bridges.
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An instrument for experimenting upon the mathematical relations of musical sounds. It consists of a single string stretched between two bridges, one or both of which are movable, and which stand upon a graduated rule for the purpose of readily changing and measuring the length of the part of the string between them.
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A duty or tax paid for repairing bridges.
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Structures in civil, military, or naval engineering, as docks, bridges, embankments, trenches, fortifications, and the like; also, the structures and grounds of a manufacturing establishment; as, iron works; locomotive works; gas works.
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A particular view; an examination, especially an official examination, of all the parts or particulars of a thing, with a design to ascertain the condition, quantity, or quality; as, a survey of the stores of a ship; a survey of roads and bridges; a survey of buildings.
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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.
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To build a bridge or bridges on or over; as, to bridge a river.
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The art or science of building; especially, the art of building houses, churches, bridges, and other structures, for the purposes of civil life; -- often called civil architecture.
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The act, art, or process of constructing pontoon bridges.
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A composition of bitumen, pitch, lime, and gravel, used for forming pavements, and as a water-proof cement for bridges, roofs, etc.; asphaltic cement. Artificial asphalt is prepared from coal tar, lime, sand, etc.
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Of or pertaining to the building of bridges.
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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.
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The art of making roads or ways for traveling, including the construction of bridges, canals, viaducts, etc.
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A boxlike step for a mast with the after side open, so that the mast can be lowered to pass under bridges, etc.
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An instrument for measuring the harmonic relations of sounds. It is often a monochord furnished with movable bridges.
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A wooden flat-bottomed boat, a metallic cylinder, or a frame covered with canvas, India rubber, etc., forming a portable float, used in building bridges quickly for the passage of troops.
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