Definitions

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  • adjective Resembling a girder or some aspect of one.

Etymologies

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girder +‎ -like

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Examples

  • Then they remove the pads and launch the missile from a girderlike launch rail in a grassy field somewhere in the Free World.

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

  • Then they remove the pads and launch the missile from a girderlike launch rail in a grassy field somewhere in the Free World.

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

  • Then they remove the pads and launch the missile from a girderlike launch rail in a grassy field somewhere in the Free World.

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

  • Two thirds of the way up its trunk, each "tree" was pierced by three or four thick, girderlike branches.

    Sentenced To Prism Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1985

  • The new apparatus was set up, a machine that almost filled the laboratory ... a giant, compact mass of heavy, solidly built metal work, tied together by beams of girderlike construction.

    Empire Clifford D. Simak 1946

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