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Span :: Span (v. t.) The spread or extent of an arch between its abutments, or of a beam, girder, truss, roof, bridge, or the like, between its supports..

Support :: Support (v. t.) To bear by being under; to keep from falling; to uphold; to sustain, in a literal or physical sense; to prop up; to bear the weight of; as, a pillar supports a structure; an abutment supports an arch; the trunk of a tree supports the branches..

Abutment :: Abutment (n.) The solid part of a pier or wall, etc., which receives the thrust or lateral pressure of an arch, vault, or strut..

Shoulder :: Shoulder (n.) An abrupt projection which forms an abutment on an object, or limits motion, etc., as the projection around a tenon at the end of a piece of timber, the part of the top of a type which projects beyond the base of the raised character, etc..

Bolster :: Bolster (n.) A plate of iron or a mass of wood under the end of a bridge girder, to keep the girder from resting directly on the abutment..

Abutment :: Abutment (n.) A fixed point or surface from which resistance or reaction is obtained, as the cylinder head of a steam engine, the fulcrum of a lever, etc..

Abutment :: Abutment (n.) That on or against which a body abuts or presse.

Thrust :: Thrust (n.) The force or pressure of one part of a construction against other parts; especially (Arch.), a horizontal or diagonal outward pressure, as of an arch against its abutments, or of rafters against the wall which support them..

Abutment :: Abutment (n.) In breech-loading firearms, the block behind the barrel which receives the pressure due to recoil..

Drift :: Drift (n.) The horizontal thrust or pressure of an arch or vault upon the abutments.

Springer :: Springer (n.) The rib of a groined vault, as being the solid abutment for each section of vaulting..

Drawbore :: Drawbore (n.) A hole bored through a tenon nearer to the shoulder than the holes through the cheeks are to the edge or abutment against which the shoulder is to rest, so that a pin or bolt, when driven into it, will draw these parts together..

Water Wing :: Water wing () One of two walls built on either side of the junction of a bridge with the bank of a river, to protect the abutment of the bridge and the bank from the action of the current..

Abutment :: Abutment (n.) State of abutting.

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