girder

English

A decorated girder in a house.

Etymology

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Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɜːdə(ɹ)/
(General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɝdɚ/
Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)də(ɹ)
Audio (UK) (file)

Noun

girder (plural girders)

A beam of steel, wood, or reinforced concrete, used as a main horizontal support in a building or structure.
One who girds; a satirist.

Derived terms

Translations

main horizontal support in a building

Bulgarian: трегер m (treger)
Czech: nosník (cs), trám (cs)
Dutch: dwarsbalk (nl) m, draagbalk (nl) m
Finnish: kannatinpalkki, niskapalkki, palkki (fi)
French: poutrelle (fr) f
Galician: trabe (gl) f, viga f
Georgian: კოჭი (ka) (ḳoč̣i), დირე (dire), წამწე (c̣amc̣e)
German: Träger (de) m, Balken (de) m, Unterzug m, Tragbalken m, Binder (de) m
Greek:
Ancient: στρωτήρ m (strōtḗr)
Irish: cearchaill f, giarsa m
Italian: trave (it) f, putrella (it) f
Malay: galang, gelegar (ms)
Maori: kurupae
Norwegian: bærebjelke m, drager (no) m
Ottoman Turkish: مرتك‎ (mertek), دیرك‎ (direk)
Persian: شاه‌تیر‎ (šâh-tir), فرسب‎ (farasb)
Polish: dźwigar m, belka (pl) f
Portuguese: trave (pt) f, viga (pt) f
Romanian: grindă (ro) f, bârnă (ro) f
Russian: ба́лка (ru) (bálka)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: греда f

Roman: greda (sh) f
Spanish: viga (es) f, jácena (es)
Swedish: bärbjälke, balk (sv), bindbjälke
Tagalog: kahab-an
Volapük: stütabem

See also

truss

Anagrams

Grider, gerrid

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