a long strong iron or steel bar used for building bridges and the framework of large buildings It was a confusing picture of pipes and girders. The unfinished building with its blue girders was being used as a huge climbing frame. Wordfinderconstructioncement, construction, foundation, girder, joist, masonry, plaster, rubble, scaffolding, site See related entries: Construction Word Originearly 17th cent.: from gird in the archaic sense ‘brace, strengthen’.
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