through bridge

English

Noun

through bridge (plural through bridges)

1. A bridge whose floor is supported by the lower chords of the tissues instead of the upper, so that travel is between the trusses and not over them.

See also

• deck bridge

References

• through bridge on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “through bridge”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “through bridge”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)