Thesaurus / cantilever
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synonyms for cantilever
- clamp
- splint
- arm
- band
- bar
- bearing
- block
- bolster
- boom
- bracer
- bracket
- buttress
- girder
- grip
- guy
- lever
- mainstay
- peg
- prop
- rafter
- reinforcement
- rib
- shore
- skid
- splice
- staff
- stanchion
- stave
- stay
- stirrup
- strengthener
- strut
- sustainer
- truss
- underpinning
- vice
- axle
- balk
- beam
- bolster
- boom
- brace
- column
- crossbar
- crosspiece
- girder
- jamb
- joist
- lintel
- pile
- piling
- pillar
- plank
- pole
- post
- prop
- scantling
- shaft
- sill
- spar
- stanchion
- stay
- stringer
- strip
- strut
- stud
- timber
- two-by-four
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How to use cantilever in a sentence
The Red Rock cantilever bridge over the Colorado river, with a centre span of 660 ft.
ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA, 11TH EDITION, VOLUME 4, PART 3VARIOUSThe cantilever rests on two river piers 120 ft. apart, centre to centre.
ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA, 11TH EDITION, VOLUME 4, PART 3VARIOUSThe great cantilever bridges have been erected in the same way, and they are specially adapted for erection by building out.
ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA, 11TH EDITION, VOLUME 4, PART 3VARIOUSThe cantilever and suspended girder types are as economical and free from uncertainty as to the stresses.
ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA, 11TH EDITION, VOLUME 4, PART 3VARIOUSIn long-span bridges the cantilever system permits erection by building out, which is economical and sometimes necessary.
ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA, 11TH EDITION, VOLUME 4, PART 3VARIOUSInstead of cableways there were great cantilever cranes built of structural steel.
THE PANAMA CANALFREDERIC JENNINGS HASKINYoung Corliss, then twenty-one years of age, proposed to build a cantilever bridge.
AMERICAN INVENTIONS AND INVENTORSWILLIAM A. MOWRYAt Warburton the roadway has been carried over a high level bridge, on the cantilever principle.
THE RIVERS OF GREAT BRITAIN; RIVERS OF THE SOUTH AND WEST COASTSVARIOUSHe has finally thrown a great cantilever over it, from Manhattan to Long Island.
THE MODERN RAILROADEDWARD HUNGERFORDIn the cantilever, two giant trusses are cunningly balanced upon string supporting towers.
THE MODERN RAILROADEDWARD HUNGERFORDWORDS RELATED TO CANTILEVER
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