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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In mech., a kind of girder resembling a box, made of boilerplates fastened together by angle-irons riveted to the top and bottom plates.
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- noun A
steel beam with a hollow rectangularcross section ; used for constructingbridges
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- noun a beam built up from boards; has a hollow rectangular cross section
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