girder

English

A decorated girder in a house.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɜːdə(ɹ)/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɝdɚ/
• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)də(ɹ)

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Noun

girder (plural girders)

1. A beam of steel, wood, or reinforced concrete, used as a main horizontal support in a building or structure.
2. One who girds; a satirist.

Translations

main horizontal support in a building

• Bulgarian: трегер m (treger)
• Czech: nosník (cs), trám (cs)
• Dutch: dwarsbalk (nl) m, draagbalk (nl) m
• Finnish: kannatinpalkki, niskapalkki, palkki (fi)
• French: poutrelle (fr) f
• Galician: trabe (gl) f, viga f
• Georgian: კოჭი (ka) (ḳoč̣i), დირე (dire), წამწე (c̣amc̣e)
• German: Träger (de) m, Balken (de) m, Unterzug m, Tragbalken m, Binder (de) m
• Greek:

  Ancient: στρωτήρ m (strōtḗr)

• Irish: cearchaill f, giarsa m
• Italian: trave (it) f, putrella (it) f
• Malay: galang, gelegar

• Maori: kurupae
• Norwegian: bærebjelke m, drager (no) m
• Polish: dźwigar m, belka (pl) f
• Portuguese: trave (pt) f, viga (pt) f
• Romanian: grindă (ro) f, bârnă (ro) f
• Russian: ба́лка (ru) (bálka)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: греда f

  Roman: greda (sh) f

• Spanish: viga (es) f, jácena (es)
• Swedish: bärbjälke, balk (sv), bindbjälke
• Tagalog: kahab-an
• Volapük: stütabem

See also

• truss

Anagrams

• Grider, gerrid