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Drawbridge
Drawbridge Draw"bridge`, n.
A bridge of which either the whole or a part is made to be
raised up, let down, or drawn or turned aside, to admit or
hinder communication at pleasure, as before the gate of a
town or castle, or over a navigable river or canal.
Note: The movable portion, or draw, is called, specifically,
a bascule, balance, or lifting bridge, a turning,
swivel, or swing bridge, or a rolling bridge, according
as it turns on a hinge vertically, or on a pivot
horizontally, or is pushed on rollers.
Meaning of Drawbridge from wikipedia
- A
drawbridge or draw-bridge is a type of
moveable bridge typically at the
entrance to a
castle or
tower surrounded by a moat. In some
forms of English...
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Drawbridge mentality, also
known as
fortress mentality is a
conservative and anti-immigrant
attitude of
prior immigrants in an
established community. Drawbridge...
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Drawbridge (formerly
Saline City) is a
ghost town with an
abandoned railroad station located at the
southern end of the San
Francisco Bay, next to Station...
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Drawbridge is a people-based
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subsidiary of
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- Look up
drawbridge in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A
drawbridge is a type of
moveable bridge. In
American English,
drawbridge can also
refer to moveable...
- The
Newark Drawbridge, also
known as the
Morristown Line Bridge, is a
railroad bridge on the P****aic
River between Newark and Harrison, New Jersey. The...
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American English, the term is
synonymous with
drawbridge, and the
latter is the
common term, but
drawbridge can be
limited to the narrower,
historical definition...
- The
Prescott Drawbridge, also
called the
Point Douglas Drawbridge, is a
steel girder bridge with a double-leaf
bascule drawbridge section. The roadbed...
- 42°53′46″N 70°48′59″W / 42.89611°N 70.81639°W / 42.89611; -70.81639 The
Hampton Bridge is a
bascule bridge that
spans the
Hampton River near Hampton...
- The
Drawbridge is a
quarterly newspaper started in
London in 2006. It is a full-colour
independent paper that has
published articles by
Isabel Allende...
