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UK
/ɡˈɑːntɹi/
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[ US /ˈɡæntɹi/ ]
[ US /ˈɡæntɹi/ ]
NOUN
- a framework of steel bars raised on side supports to bridge over or around something; can display railway signals above several tracks or can support a traveling crane etc.
How To Use gantry In A Sentence
- A scan at the gantry and its array of various malts tells me this is a decent hostelry.
- An explosive martinet on the set, but the result was 'Elmer Gantry,' 'In Cold Blood' and 'The Professionals.' Hard-Nosed Hollywood
- Calatrava's tower seems the more absurd because it is to be close to the mighty gantry crane of the defunct Kockums shipyard.
- Four giant white spotlights were illuminated from the top of each gantry, pointing upwards towards the sky.
- A firing gantry scaffold, a long, reinforced openwork steel ramp, projected from a flat, empty deck close to the helipad. A DAYSTAR OF FEAR
- Externally they are plain, internally they are complex with the curves of furnace and hearths and an impressive wooden gantry.
- The shuttle launch gantry is equipped with seven 1,200-foot-long sliding wires, each attached to a basket similar to those used for hot-air ballooning.
- This fixed-reactive component has an overhead gantry to which a frame is attached, and ride motions are fed through the axles and into the frame.
- Nearby, the Chinese-built deepwater port, with its neat angles, spanking-new gantry cranes, and other cargo-handling equipment, appeared charged with expectation, even as the complex stood silent and empty against the horizon, waiting for decisions from Islamabad. Pakistan’s Fatal Shore
- The flat battery was added to another gantry for the normal charging operation. Times, Sunday Times