hoist bridge
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]hoist bridge (plural hoist bridges)
- A drawbridge that is lifted instead of being swung or drawn aside.
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “hoist bridge”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)