gantry
pronunciation
How to pronounce gantry in British English:
UK [ˈgæntri]
How to pronounce gantry in American English:
US [ˈɡæntri]
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- Noun:
- 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.
Word Origin
- gantry
- gantry: see gallon
- gantry (n.)
- also gauntree, 1570s, "four-footed stand for a barrel," probably from Old North French gantier (Old French chantier, 13c., "store-room, stock-room"), from Latin cantherius "rafter, frame," also "a gelding," from Greek kanthelios "pack ass," which is related to kanthelion "rafter," of unknown origin. The connecting notion in all this seems to be framework for carrying things. Meaning "frame for a crane, etc." is from 1810. Railway signal sense attested by 1889. Derivation from tree (n.) + gawn "small bucket," an obsolete 16c. contraction of gallon, might be folk-etymology.
Example
- 1. Dual column vertical lathe , gantry type milling machine .
- 2. Gantry crane design satisfies the design project description request .
- 3. The gantry was crammed with photographic lights .
- 4. Samson and goliath , the two gantry cranes that dominate belfast 's skyline , stand as reminders of the city 's former shipbuilding glory .
- 5. Research on crossbeam magnetic levitation control system of gantry moving numerical control machine tool .