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grillage

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gril·lage  (grlj)
n.
A network or frame of timber or steel serving as a foundation, usually on ground that is wet or soft.
[French, from Old French, trellis, from greille, gridiron; see grill.]
grillage [ˈgrɪlɪdʒ]
n
(Miscellaneous Technologies / Building) an arrangement of beams and crossbeams used as a foundation on soft ground
[from French, from griller to furnish with a grille]


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Like Shane of the classic western, he has a cataloguer's eye and can be a little merciless at times with his grillage.
The good, the bad and the ugly by Dunster, David / The Architectural Review
On the other hand, a contract for the fabrication and erection of structural steel for a power station was amended to change the fabrication and grillage of other steel, and the court considered it a single amended contract.
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To prevent this central space from overheating, the glass is protected by an external grillage of fixed wooden louvres which are cut back in places to give what must for small children be wondrous views of the sky.
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