cantilever bridge

noun

1. a bridge having spans that are constructed as cantilevers and often a suspended span or spans, each end of which rests on one end of a cantilever span

Example Sentences

The Red Rock cantilever bridge over the Colorado river, with a centre span of 660 ft.

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Young Corliss, then twenty-one years of age, proposed to build a cantilever bridge.

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The Niagara cantilever bridge is a notable instance of this practice.

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Diving from a small boat about 300 yards above the new cantilever bridge, he plunged into the stream.

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Let's take the car, eh, and run down and look at that new cantilever bridge at Apsworth?

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