drawbridge

See also: draw-bridge and draw bridge

English

a drawbrige

Etymology

draw +‎ bridge.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɹɔːbɹɪdʒ/

Noun

drawbridge (plural drawbridges)

1. A hinged bridge which can be raised (to prevent its being crossed, as across a moat, or to allow watercraft to travel beneath it).

Synonyms

• (bridge that allows watercraft to travel): bascule bridge

Hypernyms

• movable bridge

Translations

bridge which can be raised

• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 弔橋／吊桥 (zh) (diàoqiáo), 吊橋／吊桥 (zh) (diàoqiáo), 吊桥 (zh) (diàoqiáo)

• Czech: padací most m
• Danish: vindebro
• Dutch: ophaalbrug (nl) f, valbrug (nl)
• Esperanto: levoponto
• Estonian: tõmbesild, tõstesild
• Finnish: laskusilta (fi) (across a moat), läppäsilta (fi), nostosilta (fi) (across a waterway)
• French: pont-levis (fr) m
• German: Zugbrücke (de) f
• Hungarian: felvonóhíd
• Icelandic: vindubrú f
• Irish: droichead tógála m
• Italian: ponte levatoio (it) m
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• Japanese: 跳ね橋 (はねばし, hanebashi)
• Korean: 가동교 (gadonggyo) (可動橋)
• Latvian: paceļamais tilts m
• Lithuanian: pakeliamasis tiltas m
• Luxembourgish: Falbréck f
• Polish: most zwodzony (pl) m
• Portuguese: ponte levadiça f
• Russian: разводно́й мост m (razvodnój most)
• Spanish: puente levadizo m
• Sundanese: ᮞᮞᮊ᮪ ᮃᮀᮊᮒ᮪ (sasak angkat)
• Swedish: vindbrygga (sv)
• Vietnamese: cầu sắt
• Volapük: lötirapon, (older term) tulapon (vo)

Gallery

• 
  A fort entryway's drawbridge.
• 
  A drawbridge open to allow a ship beneath.

Anagrams

• bridge-ward