sandwich girder

English

Noun

sandwich girder (plural sandwich girders)

1. A girder consisting of two parallel wooden beams, between which is an iron plate, the whole clamped together by iron bolts.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “sandwich girder”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)