lattice girder

American  

noun

1. a trusslike girder having the upper and lower chords connected by latticing.

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Etymology

Origin of lattice girder

First recorded in 1850–55

Example Sentences

In these stations, after preliminary failures to obtain the necessary structural strength with ordinary masts, tall lattice girder wooden towers have been built, about 215 feet in height, well stayed against wind pressure, and which so far have proved themselves capable of withstanding any storm of wind which has come against them.

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Glasgow; and a lattice girder bridge over the entrance to Kingston Dock, Glasgow Harbor.

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Fuselage.—The fuselage is V shaped and constructed of weldless steel tubing in the form of a lattice girder.

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The dredgings were delivered by the buckets upon an endless belt, driven from the main compound surface-condensing engine, which ran over pulleys supported upon a steel lattice girder, the outer end of which rested upon an independent pontoon.

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Next there is the Lattice girder, borrowed from the loose rough timber bridges of the American engineers, consisting of a top and bottom flange connected by a number of flat iron bars, riveted across each other at a certain angle, the roadway resting on the top, or being suspended at the bottom between the lattice on either side. 

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