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- Girder - n. - One who girds; a satirist.
- Girder - n. - One who, or that which, girds.
- Girder - n. - 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.
- Flitch - n. - One of several planks, smaller timbers, or iron plates, which are secured together, side by side, to make a large girder or built beam.
- Breastsummer - n. - 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.
- Templet - n. - A short piece of timber, iron, or stone, placed in a wall under a girder or other beam, to distribute the weight or pressure.
- Tail-bay - n. - 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.
- Deflection - n. - The bending which a beam or girder undergoes from its own weight or by reason of a load.
- Bolster - n. - 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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