bascule's Usage Examples:

The two bascules are each constructed with four main girders.

The weight of ballast in the short arms of the bascules is 365 tons.

In these bridges each bascule is prolonged backwards beyond the hinge so as to balance at the hinge, the prolongation sinking into the piers when the bridge is opened.

The opening bridge between the river towers consists of two leaves or bascules, pivoted near the faces of the piers and rotating in a vertical plane.

The bascules rotate through an angle of 82°, and their rear ends in the bascule chambers of the piers carry 365 tons of counterweight, the total weight of each being 1070 tons.

clear, with balanced bascules over the centre span.

Each bascule consists of two main girders with cross girders and stringers.

bascule bridge was built in 1972, parallel to the swing bridge.

bascule key of the clarinet by Milhouse, London c 1805, (2001 ).

13), is a suspension bridge with a secondary bascule bridge in the centre span to permit the passage of ships.

The bascules ?1N?? ? ?The weight of ballast in the short arms of the bascules is 365 tons.

This is a suspension bridge with a central portion, between two lofty and massive stone towers, consisting of bascules which can be raised by hydraulic machinery to admit the passage of vessels.

There are two high-level footways for use when the bascules are raised, the main girders of which are of the cantilever and suspended girder type.

Synonyms:

structure, construction,

Antonyms:

natural object, disassembly, misconstruction,