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DictionarygantrySupporting framework
noun

gantry

GAN-tree/ˈɡæntri/

A framework built over or around a space to support equipment or provide access.

The gantry supports the overhead trolley and its suspended load.

Tall steel gantry frame with overhead trolley lifting one plain crate by straight suspended hook and cable, mechanically coherent industrial support structure; no warehouse panorama, people, labels or logos.
Etymology
gantryLatinrafter, frame

Probably connected with Latin cantherius, ‘rafter, frame,’ gantry first meant a four-footed barrel stand. That supporting-frame sense broadened to structures carrying cranes and other equipment.

In context

Stuff Made Here8:10
this is the little gantry that's moved around by the big gantry the paint gun mounts here and it has its trigger pulled with this little servo motor so the gantry rides in these steel tracks
My GIANT wall painting robot

More examples

  • The workers crossed the maintenance gantry.
  • The rocket stood inside a tall service gantry.
  • The scanner’s gantry surrounded the examination table.

Forms

gantry · gantries

Similar words

scaffold
A scaffold supports workers or construction; a gantry spans a space to support equipment or provide access.
crane
A crane lifts loads; a gantry can be the supporting frame for one.