Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A bridge designed for pedestrians.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A bridge for foot-passengers.
- noun In machinery, a curved bar which serves as a step for the foot or toe of a mill-spindle.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A narrow bridge for foot passengers only.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
bridge over aroad ,railway ,river , etc forpedestrians .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a bridge designed for pedestrians
Etymologies
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Examples
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Inspired by the work of Gustave Eiffel, the new footbridge, is composed of lateral beams with a diagonal mesh of small plate strips that are riveted together.
New Pedestrian Bridge Opens in La Roche-sur-Yon France | Inhabitat 2010
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Ideas in the pipeline so far include a permanent car park and picnic area near to the footbridge, which is due to be removed by October.
News round-up 2010
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A new stone footbridge, which is more like stepping stones than a bridge, has been installed on the Templeton Creek Trail at the Mounds State Recreation Area to improve safety there, Gillum said.
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Army bosses said that installing a footbridge is the simplest and quickest immediate solution to span the River Derwent.
News round-up 2009
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Metropolitan Area Planning Council director Marc Draisen questioned if the footbridge was the best use of limited stimulus money.
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Leaping from the footbridge has been a common rite of passage for locals for the past three decades.
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"Installing a footbridge is the simplest and quickest immediate solution to span the river Derwent," the council said in a statement.
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The footbridge which is suspended by cables from a high overpass, is swaying.
TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2010
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Dryfuse described the location as "along the creek bank that will be seated to the east of the east footbridge which is located just north of the BMX track which is north of Vic Wurm baseball diamond."
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It is a pedestrian footbridge which is not designed to sustain vehicles.
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