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suspension bridge

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suspension bridge: see bridge bridge, structure built over water or any obstacle or depression to allow the passage of pedestrians or vehicles. See also viaduct .

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suspension bridge
a bridge that has a deck suspended by cables or rods from other cables or chains that hang between two towers and are anchored at both ends


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Have you ever seen his first suspension bridge in Canada, the one he was doing when I first knew him?
The lightning spattered the sky as a thrown egg spattered a barn door, but the light was pale blue, not yellow; and looking through my slit bamboo blinds, I could see the great dog standing, not sleeping, in the veranda, the hackles alift on her back, and her feet planted as tensely as the drawn wire rope of a suspension bridge.
-- By the middle of the day we arrived at one of the suspension bridges, made of hide, which cross the Maypu, a large turbulent river a few leagues southward of Santiago.
 
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