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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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That queer fish with the long whiskers, the old man who preaches on the sand, often climbs up on to the nearest girder.
The steeply sloping reef was covered in a jumble of steel hawser, deck plates, twisted girder and hand-rail.
Pier blocks serve as a transition from the posts supporting the girder to the concrete foundation footings.
Further back, a solitary girder stands upright about 2m above the general level of the wreck.
Consider the dead load of the precast girder, deck and diaphragm concrete acting on a simple span of the bridge.
Everything, every single nut, bolt, screw, girder, steel cable, had to be lifted to those heights by helicopter, and winched down.

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