Meanings of i-beam in English

Petite as she was, Caroline King had a steel I-beam for a spine.

He felt himself teeter, and slowly arc away from the I-beam.

In this way we became the recipients of bricks, breeze blocks, I-beams and other odds-and-ends.

I-beam was carried by an outside wall pier and three I-beam columns encased in concrete.

Suppose acres of new land could be manufactured just like I-beams, bolts of cloth, or toothpaste.

Odd wires, shards of glass, and toothy spars that looked like chewed-up I-beams dotted the ground.

The girders upon which it runs consist of 12-inch I-beams, which are hung from the roof trusses.

Each tube and I-beam was slick with water, beads of condensation tickled by gravity until they dropped.

Get an I-beam, say about twenty feet long, and see if you can't help lift that crazy mass.

Dan Osman had just finished pulling the rope up and was casually walking, unroped, toward us along a narrow I-beam.

"Did you see those old I-beams stacked in the machine hall?"

Testers appreciated this I-beam's long gate opening and slightly asymmetrical shape, which also yields a broad and well-rounded (smooth-handling) rope cradle.

Progress then consisted of leaping from I-beam to I-beam, until they began to discern the lights of the Political Office amid the tangled gloom.

The "pocket" design contributed favorably to handling, since you can get slightly better purchase on the ridges between the holes than with a homogenous I-beam.

The platforms are framed of single-web girders 8 feet deep, thoroughly braced and carrying on their top flanges a grillage of 20-inch I-beam.