pivot bridge

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English

Noun

pivot bridge (plural pivot bridges)

  1. A form of drawbridge in which one span, called the pivot span, turns about a central vertical axis.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 pivot bridge”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)