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What is a girder?

What is a girder? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A beam of steel, wood, or reinforced concrete, used as a main horizontal support in a building or structure.
  2. One who girds; a satirist.
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The steeply sloping reef was covered in a jumble of steel hawser, deck plates, twisted girder and hand-rail.
The girder is in a position parallel to the ledger and supports the opposite end of the joists.
Do a similar layout on the girder, so that you know exactly where each joist crosses the girder.
Pier blocks serve as a transition from the posts supporting the girder to the concrete foundation footings.
The arch's 4-ft-wide box girder is 6 ft deep at mid-span and 20 ft deep at the ends.
On approaching the road overbridge, they noticed that the girder had collapsed and immediately stopped the train.

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