It's an abutment from a bridge that was put up to go over the Don Valley. From Wordnik.com. [A Romance With Canada] Reference
The abutment is the extension attached to the implant, supporting the crown. From Wordnik.com. [PR.com Press Releases] Reference
It's called the abutment, and will protrude above the gums to hold the porcelain tooth. From Wordnik.com. [Best Syndication -] Reference
The abutment towers are similar to the river towers. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"] Reference
At any point x from the abutment, the bending moment is M =. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"] Reference
"My friend, I reassert I have my doubts about the abutment!". From Wordnik.com. [The Lincoln Story Book] Reference
The abutment forms were built up as the concreting progressed. From Wordnik.com. [Concrete Construction Methods and Costs] Reference
Showing abutment of smaller roof-beams over round girders 151 39. From Wordnik.com. [A Study of Pueblo Architecture: Tusayan and Cibola Eighth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1886-1887, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 3-228] Reference
The top of the bridge was knocked off as well as the big abutment. From Wordnik.com. [The True Story of Our National Calamity of Flood, Fire and Tornado] Reference
I could build a bridge from Sodom to Gomorrah with abutment below. '. From Wordnik.com. [The Lincoln Story Book] Reference
As he formed this resolution, he emerged from the shadow of the abutment. From Wordnik.com. [Monte-Cristo's Daughter] Reference
Let the load move to D, so that its distance from the left abutment is x+a. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"] Reference
When she was able to rise and look over the parapet no one was on the abutment. From Wordnik.com. [Madame Flirt A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera'] Reference
For alternating currents, however, the abutment stop may be used on both electrodes. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 315, January 14, 1882] Reference
A more common type is a bridge with two leaves or bascules, one hinged at each abutment. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"] Reference
After the barrows were raised (12 ft.), they were wheeled to the abutment forms and dumped. From Wordnik.com. [Concrete Construction Methods and Costs] Reference
But -- I feel bound to state that I am in some doubt as to the abutment on the other side! '. From Wordnik.com. [The Lincoln Story Book] Reference
The purpose of such arrangement may have been to admit of the abutment of the ends of series. From Wordnik.com. [A Study of Pueblo Architecture: Tusayan and Cibola Eighth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1886-1887, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 3-228] Reference
The concrete for the abutment adjacent to the mixer was handled in buckets by a guy derrick. From Wordnik.com. [Concrete Construction Methods and Costs] Reference
It was Koto's voice, and it came from behind the abutment of rock toward which I was hurrying. From Wordnik.com. [The Winged Men of Orcon A Complete Novelette] Reference
Then he was caught fast by the wristbands, and the ponies of the 44 tipped over the broken abutment. From Wordnik.com. [Golden Stories A Selection of the Best Fiction by the Foremost Writers] Reference
On the abutment towers the chains are connected by horizontal links, carried on rockers, to anchor ties. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"] Reference
He ran out of breath after a hundred yards, stopped under a bridge and sat down against a concrete abutment. From Wordnik.com. [Relativity] Reference
This they did for about a hundred yards and then the wall ended abruptly against what appeared to be an abutment. From Wordnik.com. [The Broncho Rider Boys with Funston at Vera Cruz Or, Upholding the Honor of the Stars and Stripes] Reference
Let hk (fig. 56) represent in magnitude and position a load W, at x from the left abutment, on a girder AB of span l. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"] Reference
Rofflash groped his way over the slimy floor to a small door which he knew opened on to an abutment between two arches. From Wordnik.com. [Madame Flirt A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera'] Reference
The only thing he had to fear was the rising tide should it chance to wash over the abutment and sweep him off his feet. From Wordnik.com. [Madame Flirt A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera'] Reference
There's a phone number on the bridge abutment down at river level that mariners can call to ask that the bridge be opened. From Wordnik.com. [High above Potomac, a peek into the inner workings of the Woodrow Wilson Bridge] Reference
"There's the wall!" exclaimed Donald a few minutes later, "and there's where I jumped," pointing to a spot near the abutment. From Wordnik.com. [The Broncho Rider Boys with Funston at Vera Cruz Or, Upholding the Honor of the Stars and Stripes] Reference
A man, so thick and heavy in appearance and movement that he was obviously a concrete abutment come to life, stepped up to Wims. From Wordnik.com. [I Was a Teen-Age Secret Weapon] Reference
The following examples of pier and abutment construction cover both large and small work and give a clear idea of current practice. From Wordnik.com. [Concrete Construction Methods and Costs] Reference
The draw was cut away, the middle pier and the western abutment partially blown down, and the field piece spiked by the west siders. From Wordnik.com. [Cleveland Past and Present Its Representative Men] Reference
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