girder

English

A decorated girder in a house.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɡɜː(ɹ)də(ɹ)/
• Rhymes: -ɜː(r)də(r)

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, trám
• Dutch: dwarsbalk (nl) m
• French: poutrelle (fr) f
• German: Träger (de) m, Balken (de) m
• Irish: cearchaill f, giarsa m
• Italian: trave (it) f, putrella (it) f
• 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

Anagrams

• Grider, gerrid