0 a long, thick piece of metal or concrete, etc. that supports a roof, floor, bridge, or other large structure: --
1 a long, thick piece of steel or concrete that supports a roof, floor, bridge, or other large structure --
When men's lives depend on their fellows who are holding a girder, they will not tolerate working with men who are not trade unionists.
I understand that two of the seven cast iron girders in the central span were severely damaged.
Go and see them now—heaps of rubble, girders twisted by fire.
When the receiving firm have built up stanchions, pillars, compound girders and the rest, they become the manufacturers.
The pads which are incorporated into the sub-floor system are surrounded by a floating floor plane of half-inch thick aluminium plate mounted on a suspended girder system.
The scaffolding on which he stood was attached by ropes to a girder that inexplicably rolled over, plunging him eighty feet to the basement.
Three probe contacts with the tube and the probe are connected with an elastic girder on which four strain gauges are pasted like a bridge.
The frames were constructed out of lightweight steel girders bolted together to support two vertical sheets of steel mesh.
