cantilever bridge
a bridge having spans that are constructed as cantilevers and often a suspended span or spans, each end of which rests on one end of a cantilever span
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How to use cantilever bridge in a sentence
The Red Rock cantilever bridge over the Colorado river, with a centre span of 660 ft.
Young Corliss, then twenty-one years of age, proposed to build a cantilever bridge.
American Inventions and Inventors | William A. MowryThe Niagara cantilever bridge is a notable instance of this practice.
Diving from a small boat about 300 yards above the new cantilever bridge, he plunged into the stream.
Forty Thousand Miles Over Land and Water | Lady (Ethel Gwendoline [Moffatt]) VincentLet's take the car, eh, and run down and look at that new cantilever bridge at Apsworth?
V. V.'s Eyes | Henry Sydnor Harrison
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