gantry
a framework spanning a railroad track or tracks for displaying signals.
any of various spanning frameworks, as a bridgelike portion of certain cranes.
Rocketry. a frame consisting of scaffolds on various levels used to erect vertically launched rockets and spacecraft.
a framelike stand for supporting a barrel or cask.
Origin of gantry
1- Also gauntry.
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How to use gantry in a sentence
Check out this 2003 clip in which this soft-spoken Jewish pischer was transformed into Elmer gantry.
McConnell's Fancy Farm Monster Comes Back to Haunt Him | Jonathan Miller | August 4, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTAt first Lear thought of making a feature film satirizing Swaggart and his ilk—sort of an updated Elmer gantry.
Palin is a beauty-queen Elmer gantry, outdoing Stephen Colbert in cheesy, braying nationalism.
Creeping along behind the string of coal cars I came presently to the great gantry crane used for unloading the fuel.
The Wreckers | Francis LyndeRick looked through the glass ports and saw the gantry crane being wheeled away.
The Scarlet Lake Mystery | Harold Leland Goodwin
A yell would stop Dr. Bernais, and the gantry would be wheeled back into place.
The Scarlet Lake Mystery | Harold Leland GoodwinBefore entering, our attention is arrested by a huge gantry crane, borne by two columns which travel on rails.
The Romance of Modern Mechanism | Archibald Williamsgantry's own boyhood was not so deeply buried in the past as to make him forgetful of its joys and sorrows.
The Honorable Senator Sage-Brush | Francis Lynde
British Dictionary definitions for gantry
gauntry
/ (ˈɡæntrɪ) /
a bridgelike framework used to support a travelling crane, signals over a railway track, etc
Also called: gantry scaffold the framework tower used to attend to a large rocket on its launching pad
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
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