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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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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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 (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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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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Benicia–Martinez Bridge (redirect from Benicia–Martinez Railroad Drawbridge)
functions at highway speeds. Union Pacific Railroad's Benicia–Martinez drawbridge is between the two vehicle bridges. The railroad bridge was built between...
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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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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 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) is a bascule bridge located in Kuala Terengganu,...
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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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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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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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The Sparkill Creek Drawbridge is a historic Pratt Pony Truss drawbridge located at Piermont in Rockland County, New York. It was built in 1880 by the King...
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The Nagoya Port Drawbridge (名古屋港跳上橋, nagoyakō haneagebashi) is a drawbridge in Nagoya Port in Nagoya, Japan. It was used on a rail line bound for Nagoya...
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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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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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Rumson–Sea Bright Bridge (redirect from Rumson-Sea Bright drawbridge)
across the Shrewsbury River connecting Sea Bright to Rumson was a wooden drawbridge constructed in 1870. This was replaced in 1881 by an iron bridge, which...
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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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Crook Point Bascule Bridge (redirect from Seekonk river drawbridge)
The Crook Point Bascule Bridge (or the Seekonk River Drawbridge) is a defunct Scherzer rolling lift railway bridge which spans the Seekonk River, connecting...
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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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Bridge to the Palisades. The Piermont hand-cranked drawbridge, also known as the Sparkill Creek Drawbridge, was originally built in 1880 by the King Iron...
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A Sr1-pulled lumber train crossing the drawbridge along the Savonia railway in Kuopio, Finland...
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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 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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Historically, the double-beam drawbridge has emerged from the drawbridge. Unlike a drawbridge, a double-beam drawbridge has counterweights, so that opening...
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it was narrower at defensive features (the stone gate, the drawbridge and the drawbridge tower) and wider south of the stone gate. The houses occupied...
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