gantry
gantry
Definition
gan·try (gan′trē)
noun pl. -·tries
- a frame on which barrels can be set horizontally
- a framework that spans a distance, often moving on wheels at each end, used for carrying a traveling crane
- a bridgelike framework over railroad tracks, for supporting signals or for loading
- ☆ a wheeled framework with a crane, platforms at different levels, etc., used for assembling, positioning, and servicing a large rocket at its launching site
Etymology: ME gauntre, altered (prob. infl. by tre, tree) < OFr gantier, chantier < L canterius, beast of burden, trellis < Gr kanthēlios, a pack ass
gantry
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- use: A series of shackles and wires are attached and the buoy is pulled in using the stern gantry.
- have: Wealthy cities like Cerritos often have elaborate traffic light gantries.
- erect: We also spent a day erecting the gantry with the help of another friend, a neighbor from down the lane.
Adjective modifier
- stern: It is quite common to see trawlers of this type with trawl doors hung up on the stern gantries, ready for use.
- overhead: Variable speed limits will be applied widely over the network without the need for overhead gantries.
- fixed: If a tanker is loaded from a fixed gantry and access is required onto the top of the tanker, fencing should be provided.
- high: A 10 foot high metal gantry on the roof would have mounted the radar array.
- new: The new gantries will be fitted to all new appliances.
- large: The MoD claim to currently only fire at " soft " targets, plastic or canvas hoisted on large gantries on the skyline.
Modifies a noun
- crane: Due to highly dynamic drives for operating the gantry crane, up to 60 cycles per hour are possible.
- sign: Gantry signs are mounted on the viaduct both ways to direct traffic.
- system: Loading of barges was effected by means of an overhead gantry system direct into the works.
- robot: The projects have ranged from the use of proprietary robot units to the development of a large, complex gantry robot system.
- signal: Beyond the bridge a steel gantry signal stood, very straight, guarding the vanished junction ahead.
Noun used with modifier
- overhead: The last signs before the exit are on a full overhead gantry.
- loading: The captured vapors are burned to generate enough electrical energy for the Shell grid to compensate for the new loading gantry 's consumption.
- motorway: The motorway gantries give no indication of seriousness of delays either.
- lighting: Just to the right of the nearest light there are two, what look like, large lighting gantries in the background.
- signal: The signal gantry across the station throat is now installed.
- steel: The four concrete bases for the 25 foot steel gantry can still be seen on either side of the building.
