gantry
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- n 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.
- A gantry crane would make an interesting gate, a crumbling water tower could become the base of a lighted beacon.
- A greenish-colored gantry has been brought from White Sands Proving Ground to support the pencil-thin vehicle before it roars off toward space.
- When he rose to the "greenhouse," an enclosed platform at the gantry's 65-ft.