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In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed... No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people. Preface to 1828 Dictionary
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GIRD'ER, n. In architecture, the principal piece of timber in a floor. Its end is usually fastened into the summers or breast summers,and the joists are framed in it at one end. In buildings entirely of timber, the girder is fastened by tenons into the posts.
One who girds; a satirist.
One who, or that which, girds.
A main beam] a
stright, horizontal beam to span an opening or carry weight, such as
ends of floor beams, etc.; hence, a framed or built-up member
discharging the same office, technically called a compound
girder. See Illusts. of Frame, and Doubleframed
floor, under Double.
Bowstring girder, Box girder, etc. See under Bowstring, Box, etc. -- Girder bridge. See under Bridge. -- Lattice girder, a girder consisting of longitudinal bars united by diagonal crossing bars. -- Half-lattice girder, a girder consisting of horizontal upper and lower bars connected by a series of diagonal bars sloping alternately in opposite directions so as to divide the space between the bars into a series of triangles. Knight. -- Sandwich girder, a girder consisting of two parallel wooden beams, between which is an iron plate, the whole clamped together by iron bolts. | ||||||||