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What is a girder?

What is a girder? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A beam of steel, wood, or reinforced concrete, used as a main horizontal support in a building or structure.
  2. One who girds; a satirist.
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Pier blocks serve as a transition from the posts supporting the girder to the concrete foundation footings.
That queer fish with the long whiskers, the old man who preaches on the sand, often climbs up on to the nearest girder.
Do a similar layout on the girder, so that you know exactly where each joist crosses the girder.
On approaching the road overbridge, they noticed that the girder had collapsed and immediately stopped the train.
The girder is in a position parallel to the ledger and supports the opposite end of the joists.
You can't possibly blow it up, the mesh is mutually supporting, every girder bears the weight of everything above it.

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