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drawbridge
noun
draw·bridge
ˈdrȯ-ˌbrij 
: a bridge made to be raised up, let down, or drawn aside so as to permit or hinder passage see castle illustration
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The frame was built with 60 tons of steel, and to reach the 4-inch-thick oak front door, weighing 762 pounds, visitors must cross a drawbridge spanning a moat before walking under a portcullis.
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Brendel Hightower, Detroit Free Press, 14 Apr. 2024
July 1942: An oil tanker, the Fritz Klassen, crashed into a 260-foot drawbridge over the Chesapeake & Delaware Canal at Chesapeake City in Cecil County.
—Mike Klingaman, Baltimore Sun, 27 Mar. 2024
She was allowed to walk across the drawbridge as far as society and class and boundaries around acceptance versus non-acceptance.
—Marah Eakin, Vulture, 28 Feb. 2024
The people who used the castle would have needed a way to cross the moat, and now the base for a drawbridge has been discovered, according to the release.
—Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 24 May 2024
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Brendel Hightower, Detroit Free Press, 14 Apr. 2024
July 1942: An oil tanker, the Fritz Klassen, crashed into a 260-foot drawbridge over the Chesapeake & Delaware Canal at Chesapeake City in Cecil County.
—Mike Klingaman, Baltimore Sun, 27 Mar. 2024
She was allowed to walk across the drawbridge as far as society and class and boundaries around acceptance versus non-acceptance.
—Marah Eakin, Vulture, 28 Feb. 2024
The people who used the castle would have needed a way to cross the moat, and now the base for a drawbridge has been discovered, according to the release.
—Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 24 May 2024
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drawbridge
noun
draw·bridge
-ˌbrij
: a bridge made to be wholly or partly raised up, let down, or drawn aside so as to permit or prevent passage
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