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falsework

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Definitions

  1. Temporary support used while an arch, bridge, or other structure is being built.

Word origin

From false + work.

Used in a sentence

  • Both steel and timber forms were used, supported on a falsework of steel beams erected on the new abutments at each end and on temporary piles which were driven into the river bed at mid-span.
  • Each [girder] measuring 38 metres long, they will sit below four steel tripods which will support the falsework and formwork.
  • ... the woefully incomplete Ferris Wheel ... was a half-moon of steel encased in a skyscraper of wooden falsework.

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