Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A network or frame of timber or steel serving as a foundation, usually on ground that is wet or soft.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In engineering, a framework composed of heavy beams laid longitudinally and crossed at right angles by similar beams notched upon them, used to sustain a foundation and prevent it from settling unevenly in soil of unequal compressibility.
- noun In lace, a background of separate bars or brides, not woven together into a texture.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Hydraulic Eagin.) A framework of sleepers and crossbeams forming a foundation in marshy or treacherous soil.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun a
foundation ofcrisscrossing timber orsteel beams, usually for spreading heavy loads over large areas.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The rooms are panelled in carved cedar-wood, and there is charming "grillage" iron-work in the fanlights and outside gates.
Here, There and Everywhere Frederick Spencer Hamilton 1892
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"The work is timber grillage, but otherwise the materials are largely Roman."
Operation Luna Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1999
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In one design, the conventional gate is backed up by a grillage of embedded steel rods extending across the opening, behind the gate slot.
Chapter 11 1995
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If by any accident the shell should be damp in the interior, they are to be heated and dried, on the grillage prepared for that purpose.
Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. 1866. Fourth edition. United States. Navy Dept. Bureau of Ordnance
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Each arch ring was reinforced by a grillage of longitudinal and transverse rods.
Concrete Construction Methods and Costs Halbert Powers Gillette
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It lay behind ramparts of coal, of grillage timbers and piling, of shedded cement barrels, and tons of steel.
The Iron Trail Rex Ellingwood Beach 1913
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The screens are in the form of a steel grillage, set on inclined guides in concrete masonry, and are removable by means of a crane.
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Base-plates, bearing plates, and grillage beams shall be figured on the assumption that the maximum bending moments are under the centre of bearing.
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- to cook au gratin; a dish cooked in that manner gratinây grillage grêeàzh grotesquerie grotéskery gruyère gruyére guillotine gilətêen
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009
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- to cook au gratin; a dish cooked in that manner gratinây grillage grêeàzh grotesquerie grotéskery gruyère gruyére guillotine gilətêen
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009
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