A drawbridge or draw-bridge is a type of moveable bridge typically at the entrance to a castle or tower surrounded by a moat. In some forms of English...
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Look up drawbridge in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A drawbridge is a type of moveable bridge. In American English, drawbridge can also refer to moveable...
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Drawbridge mentality, also known as fortress mentality is a conservative and anti-immigrant attitude of prior immigrants in an established community. Drawbridge...
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Drawbridge (formerly Saline City) is a ghost town with an abandoned railroad station located at the southern end of the San Francisco Bay, next to Station...
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Moveable bridge (redirect from Drawbridge (American English))
American English, the term is synonymous with drawbridge, and the latter is the common term, but drawbridge can be limited to the narrower, historical definition...
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Drawbridge is a people-based identity management company operating out of San Mateo, California, USA. It has been a subsidiary of LinkedIn since 2019....
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The Newark Drawbridge, also known as the Morristown Line Bridge, is a railroad bridge on the Passaic River between Newark and Harrison, New Jersey. The...
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The Drawbridge is a quarterly newspaper started in London in 2006. It is a full-colour independent paper that has published articles by Isabel Allende...
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Kuala Terengganu Drawbridge (Malay: Jambatan Angkat Kuala Terengganu, Jawi: جمبتن اڠكت كوالا ترڠڬانو, Terengganuan: Ghetok Congek Tranung) is a bascule...
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the water. Historically, the double-beam drawbridge has emerged from the drawbridge. A (double-beam) drawbridge has counterweights, so that operating requires...
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Hampton Bridge (redirect from Drawbridge at Hampton Beach, NH)
42°53′46″N 70°48′59″W / 42.89611°N 70.81639°W / 42.89611; -70.81639 The Hampton Bridge is a bascule bridge that spans the Hampton River near Hampton...
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western parish of Sandys, Somerset Bridge is reputedly the smallest working drawbridge in the world. It crosses a small channel connecting the Great Sound with...
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John Boys Drawbridge MBE (27 December 1930 – 24 July 2005) was a New Zealand artist, muralist and printmaker. He was famous for his murals in public places:...
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breeding program for peregrine falcons on its high towers. The mile-long drawbridge replaced ferry service when it was completed in 1966 by Hardesty & Hanover...
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The Hackensack Drawbridge (also known as the HD Draw) was a double-track railroad movable bridge across the mouth of the Hackensack River between Jersey...
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Charles River Dam Bridge (redirect from Craigie Drawbridge)
Cambridge, but most of the road is fixed, and the asymmetrically sited drawbridge is a short span entirely on the Boston side of the river. The original...
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The Prescott Drawbridge, also called the Point Douglas Drawbridge, is a steel girder bridge with a double-leaf bascule drawbridge section. The roadbed...
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A retractile drawbridge is a rare type of moveable bridge in which the span is pulled away diagonally on rails. It is a variant of the retractable bridge...
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Drawbridge is a hamlet in the parish of St Neot (where the 2011 census was included), Cornwall, England, UK. Cornwall portal Ordnance Survey: Landranger...
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The Cortland Street Drawbridge (originally known as the Clybourn Place drawbridge) over the Chicago River is the original Chicago-style fixed-trunnion...
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The Raritan Bay Drawbridge, also known as River-Draw, Raritan Bay Swing Bridge, and Raritan River Railroad Bridge, is a railroad swing bridge crossing...
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Drawbridge Peak is located on the Continental Divide along the provincial borders of Alberta and British Columbia. The Alberta side is in Jasper National...
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A linkspan or link-span is a type of drawbridge used mainly in the operation of moving vehicles on and off a roll-on/roll-off (RO-RO) vessel or ferry,...
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A bascule bridge (also referred to as a drawbridge or a lifting bridge) is a moveable bridge with a counterweight that continuously balances a span, or...
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Lefty O'Doul Bridge (redirect from Lefty O'Doul Drawbridge)
2019 – via newspapers.com. Delgado, Ray (July 13, 1999). "Third Street drawbridge to be closed 15 weeks". The San Francisco Examiner. p. A-7. Retrieved...
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Mill Basin, Brooklyn (redirect from Mill Basin Drawbridge)
neighborhood in the 1930s, and it opened in 1940. The construction of a drawbridge along the parkway, traversing Mill Basin, was approved in 1939 and completed...
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Slauerhoffbrug (redirect from Slauerhoffbrug ‘Flying’ Drawbridge)
seal. This movable bridge is also known as the “Slauerhoffbrug ‘Flying’ Drawbridge” or Frog Bridge (Dutch: Kikkerbrug), the last because of its shape in...
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The Historic Caddo Lake Drawbridge, also known as the Mooringsport Bridge, is a vertical-lift bridge that is listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic...
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double-beam drawbridge in Arles, France, which was the subject of several paintings by Vincent van Gogh in 1888. Being one of eleven drawbridges built by...
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Drawbridge in Nieuw-Amsterdam is a watercolor created in November 1883 by Vincent van Gogh in Drenthe, The Netherlands. Van Gogh wrote to his brother,...
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