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girderwork en · NOUN

Etymology

From girder + -work.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) A construction employing girders.
    • The reconstruction of the second half of this span followed on the succeeding weekend, when the old girderwork was similarly removed and replaced with the new, the down line being restored to its original alignment. 1955 June, “Bridge Reconstruction near Harrow-on-the-Hill”, in Railway Magazine, page 422: