GIRDER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does girder mean? 

• GIRDER (noun)
  The noun GIRDER has 1 sense:

1. a beam made usually of steel; a main support in a structure

  Familiarity information: GIRDER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GIRDER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A beam made usually of steel; a main support in a structure

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("girder" is a kind of...):

beam (long thick piece of wood or metal or concrete, etc., used in construction)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "girder"):

I-beam (girder having a cross section resembling the letter 'I')

 Context examples 

Over the great bridge, with the sunlight through the girders making a constant flicker upon the moving cars, with the city rising up across the river in white heaps and sugar lumps all built with a wish out of non-olfactory money.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

Instinct made him step on the accelerator with the double purpose of overtaking Daisy and leaving Wilson behind, and we sped along toward Astoria at fifty miles an hour, until, among the spidery girders of the elevated, we came in sight of the easygoing blue coupé.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)