Bailey bridge
noun
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: a bridge designed for rapid construction from interchangeable latticed panels of high-tensile steel that are coupled with alloy steel pins set into ready-made holes to form girders and laid double or triple or superposed to suit the span and load
Word History
Etymology
After Sir Donald C. Bailey, born 1901 English engineer who designed it
First Known Use
1942, in the meaning defined above
- downgone
- downgrade
- downgraded
- downgrades
- downgrading
- downhand
- downhaul
- downhauls
- downhearted
- downheartedly
- downheartedness
- downheartednesses
- beating one's brains out about
- beating out
- beating reed
- beating the drum
- beating the drum (for)
- beating the drum for
- beating the pants off
- beating up
- beating up on
- beatings
- beatitude
- beatitudes
- beatlesesque