"Girder" is a word in ENGLISH
One who girds; a satirist.
One who, or that which, girds.
A main beam; a stright, horizontal beam to span an opening
or carry weight, such as ends of floor beams, etc.; hence, a framed or
built-up member discharging the same office, technically called a
compound girder. See Illusts. of Frame, and Doubleframed floor, under
Double.
The values we rightly associate with the modern age - the "liberty, equality, and fraternity" of the French revolution - are all endangered today not by the dead hand of tradition but by modernity itself, and they can be salvaged only by moving beyond it.
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Manager: Twenty teams in the league and you lot finish bottom ?Captain: Well, it could have been worse.Manager: How ?Captain: There could have been more teams in the league !
To prepare; to make ready; to equip; as, to gird one's self for a contest.
Read the complete definitionThat with which one is girded; a girdle.
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