gantry

[ gan-tree ]
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noun,plural gan·tries.
  1. a framework spanning a railroad track or tracks for displaying signals.

  2. any of various spanning frameworks, as a bridgelike portion of certain cranes.

  1. Rocketry. a frame consisting of scaffolds on various levels used to erect vertically launched rockets and spacecraft.

  2. a framelike stand for supporting a barrel or cask.

Origin of gantry

1
1325–75; Middle English gauntre<dialectal Old French gantier wooden stand, frame, variant of chantier<Medieval Latin cantārius<Latin canthērius<Greek kanthḗlios packass

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How to use gantry in a sentence

  • A yell would stop Dr. Bernais, and the gantry would be wheeled back into place.

    The Scarlet Lake Mystery | Harold Leland Goodwin
  • Before entering, our attention is arrested by a huge gantry crane, borne by two columns which travel on rails.

    The Romance of Modern Mechanism | Archibald Williams
  • gantry's own boyhood was not so deeply buried in the past as to make him forgetful of its joys and sorrows.

British Dictionary definitions for gantry

gantry

gauntry

/ (ˈɡæntrɪ) /


nounplural -tries
  1. a bridgelike framework used to support a travelling crane, signals over a railway track, etc

  2. Also called: gantry scaffold the framework tower used to attend to a large rocket on its launching pad

  1. a supporting framework for a barrel or cask

    • the area behind a bar where bottles, esp spirit bottles mounted in optics, are kept for use or display

    • the range or quality of the spirits on view: this pub's got a good gantry

Origin of gantry

1
C16 (in the sense: wooden platform for barrels): from Old French chantier, from Medieval Latin cantārius, changed from Latin canthērius supporting frame, pack ass; related to Greek kanthēlios pack ass

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