Collocations withbridge
These are words often used in combination withbridge.
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arched bridge
A 1934 project constructed a second arched bridge immediately downstream and connected both bridges with a single deck.
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bridge abutment
Two children, initially unaccounted for, were later found safe under a bridge abutment.
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bridge builder
Yet the bridge builder was actually paid his fee!
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bridge club
The penalty for revoking too often is social ostracism, being thrown out of the bridge club and being drummed down the drive from the club.
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bridge collapse
Why did the bridge collapse?
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bridge tender
The bridge tender, a state employee, was trapped in the control booth located on the raised lift span near the south end.
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covered bridge
In 1862 at the cost of $4,000 a covered bridge was built across the river but was also destroyed.
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damaged bridge
Both barges are now stranded on a sandbank some three-quarters of a mile above the damaged bridge.
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enclosed bridge
An enclosed bridge-like assembly is swung into place from the platter's right edge to its middle.
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floating bridge
There was the heavy floating bridge project, which set us back £½ million.
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flying bridge
On military warships after 1914, the flying bridge was usually the station for the air defense officer and the gunnery officer.
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girder bridge
A 1912 concrete girder bridge and curve in the tracks were the area of train accidents, including a head-on collision.
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land bridge
Transitory states in relaxing ecosystems of land bridge islands.
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log bridge
In the 1760s, a crude log bridge, later replaced by a wooden plank bridge, was built on the site.
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nasal bridge
In this case extra calcification in the hands and wrists (e, f) and face with depressed nasal bridge (g) were diagnostic.
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one-lane bridge
A temporary one-lane bridge was constructed to carry traffic on the highway until the bridge was repaired and reopened.
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railroad bridge
The railroad bridge was used for the last time in 1982 and was dismantled in 1986.
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trestle bridge
The original rail line crossed this spot on a spectacular curved timber trestle bridge, the largest of the three on this part of the route.
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wooden bridge
And it follows that, if wooden bridge is a phrase, then so is steel bridge.
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