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suspension bridge

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suspension bridge
n.
A bridge having the roadway suspended from cables that are anchored at either end and usually supported at intervals by towers.
suspension bridge
Noun
a bridge suspended from cables that hang between two towers and are secured at both ends
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Noun1.suspension bridgesuspension bridge - a bridge that has a roadway supported by cables that are anchored at both ends
bridge, span - a structure that allows people or vehicles to cross an obstacle such as a river or canal or railway etc.
cable - a very strong thick rope made of twisted hemp or steel wire
Translations

suspension bridge n → puente m colgante
suspension bridge suspension n → pont suspendu
suspension bridge suspension n → Hängebrücke f
suspension bridge n → ponte m sospeso


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Have you ever seen his first suspension bridge in Canada, the one he was doing when I first knew him?
Alexander's Bridge by Cather, Willa View in context
The lightning spattered the sky as a thrown egg spattered a barn door, but the light was pale blue, not yellow; and looking through my slit bamboo blinds, I could see the great dog standing, not sleeping, in the veranda, the hackles alift on her back, and her feet planted as tensely as the drawn wire rope of a suspension bridge.
From Mine Own People by Kipling, Rudyard View in context
-- By the middle of the day we arrived at one of the suspension bridges, made of hide, which cross the Maypu, a large turbulent river a few leagues southward of Santiago.
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