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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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The structure formed of beams, girders, etc., with proper covering, which divides a building horizontally into stories. Floor in sense 1 is, then, the upper surface of floor in sense 2.
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A plate of iron or a mass of wood under the end of a bridge girder, to keep the girder from resting directly on the abutment.
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A large stone or beam placed horizontally on columns, piers, posts, or the like, serving for various uses. Specifically: (a) The lintel of a door or window. (b) The commencement of a cross vault. (c) A central floor timber, as a girder, or a piece reaching from a wall to a girder. Called also summertree.
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One of several planks, smaller timbers, or iron plates, which are secured together, side by side, to make a large girder or built beam.
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An upward concavity in the under side of a beam, girder, or lintel; also, a slight upward concavity in a straight arch. See Hogback.
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A girder.
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Clear space under an arch, girder, and the like, sufficient to allow of easy passing underneath.
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The thin vertical plate or portion connecting the upper and lower flanges of an lower flanges of an iron girder, rolled beam, or railroad rail.
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A small horizontal brace or girder.
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To join or fasten by a tenon and mortise; as, to mortise a beam into a post, or a joist into a girder.
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To strengthen or stiffen, as a beam or girder, by means of a brace or braces.
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A short piece of timber, iron, or stone, placed in a wall under a girder or other beam, to distribute the weight or pressure.
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A summer or girder extending across a building flush with, and supporting, the upper part of a front or external wall; a long lintel; a girder; -- used principally above shop windows.
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The bending which a beam or girder undergoes from its own weight or by reason of a load.
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A girder.
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One of the joists which rest one end on the wall and the other on a girder; also, the space between a wall and the nearest girder of a floor. Cf. Case-bay.
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The spread or extent of an arch between its abutments, or of a beam, girder, truss, roof, bridge, or the like, between its supports.
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One of the joists framed between a pair of girders in naked flooring.
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The space between two principals or girders
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