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UK
/ɡˈɑːntɹi/
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[ US /ˈɡæntɹi/ ]
[ US /ˈɡæntɹi/ ]
NOUN
- a framework of steel bars raised on side supports to bridge over or around something; can display railway signals above several tracks or can support a traveling crane etc.
How To Use gantry In A Sentence
- Then I realized it wasn't Gantry of whom I was reminded so much as another Lewis character, Berzelius "Buzz" Windrip, the politician who poses as a populist, then once elected president turns the United States into a fascist dictatorship, aided by an angry, unknowing electorate and a paramilitary group called the Minute Men. Michael Winship: The Awful Price for Teaching Less Than We Know
- With the gantry crane on site, the new turbine is being unloaded and moved to its foundation.
- Proposals for an open-road "gantry" tolling system on I-80 are due Monday, for example. Market News
- The rust-coloured gantry running along the wall up there leads to the tunnel system entrance at the east end of the room.
- On top of the gantry the American flag flew.
- Therefore viaduct spans have been constructed using various construction methods depending on the nature of the site, such as precast segment method using gantry cranes, and the balanced cantilever method. AME Info Latest News
- After all three were seen on the lines and sitting on the rails, two climbed a signal gantry and interfered with the equipment.
- The gantry is a good place to mount the radar reflector as well.
- The solution was to suspend a gondola from a 160 feet high gantry by what are known as trolley wires, in order that this strange craft could ply (as it still does) across the River Tees with foot passengers and up to nine cars. Suspending Belief
- Yet O'Donoghue and his colleagues on Mark Wilson's greenkeeping staff braved flying debris to try and repair damage to the golf course, especially one spot at the back of the 12th green, where a fallen TV gantry gouged lumps out of the putting surface. Belfasttelegraph.co.uk - Frontpage RSS Feed