All cantilever synonyms

noun cantilever

• girder — a large beam, as of steel, reinforced concrete, or timber, for supporting masonry, joists, purlins, etc.
• scaffolding — a temporary structure for holding workers and materials during the erection, repair, or decoration of a building.
• joist — any of a number of small, parallel beams of timber, steel, reinforced concrete, etc., for supporting floors, ceilings, or the like.
• shaft — a long pole forming the body of various weapons, as lances, halberds, or arrows.
• pillar — an upright shaft or structure, of stone, brick, or other material, relatively slender in proportion to its height, and of any shape in section, used as a building support, or standing alone, as for a monument: Gothic pillars; a pillar to commemorate Columbus.
• pole — Reginald, 1500–58, English cardinal and last Roman Catholic archbishop of Canterbury.
• plank — a long, flat piece of timber, thicker than a board.
• timber — the wood of growing trees suitable for structural uses.
• piling — a cylindrical or flat member of wood, steel, concrete, etc., often tapered or pointed at the lower end, hammered vertically into soil to form part of a foundation or retaining wall.
• sill — Mount, a mountain in E central California, in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. 14,153 feet (4314 meters).
• clamp — A clamp is a device that holds two things firmly together.
• splint — a thin piece of wood or other rigid material used to immobilize a fractured or dislocated bone, or to maintain any part of the body in a fixed position.
• staff — a group of persons, as employees, charged with carrying out the work of an establishment or executing some undertaking.
• rib — one of a series of curved bones that are articulated with the vertebrae and occur in pairs, 12 in humans, on each side of the vertebrate body, certain pairs being connected with the sternum and forming the thoracic wall.
• stave — one of the thin, narrow, shaped pieces of wood that form the sides of a cask, tub, or similar vessel.
• peg — a female given name, form of Peggy.
• mainstay — Nautical. the stay that secures the mainmast forward.
• grip — the act of grasping; a seizing and holding fast; firm grasp.
• band — A band is a small group of musicians who play popular music such as jazz, rock, or pop.
• splice — to join together or unite (two ropes or parts of a rope) by the interweaving of strands.
• bar — A bar is a place where you can buy and drink alcoholic drinks.
• vice — any of various devices, usually having two jaws that may be brought together or separated by means of a screw, lever, or the like, used to hold an object firmly while work is being done on it.
• reinforcement — the act of reinforcing.
• underpinning — a system of supports beneath a wall or the like.
• shore — Jane, 1445?–1527, mistress of Edward IV of England.
• bracket — If you say that someone or something is in a particular bracket, you mean that they come within a particular range, for example a range of incomes, ages, or prices.
• lever — tool for lifting
• guy — a male given name: from a Germanic word meaning “woods.”.
• block — A block of flats or offices is a large building containing them.
• sustainer — a person or thing that sustains.
• strengthener — to make stronger; give strength to.
• stirrup — a loop, ring, or other contrivance of metal, wood, leather, etc., suspended from the saddle of a horse to support the rider's foot.
• joint — the place at which two things, or separate parts of one thing, are joined or united, either rigidly or in such a way as to permit motion; juncture.
• strip — to cut, tear, or form into strips.
• bail — Bail is a sum of money that an arrested person or someone else puts forward as a guarantee that the arrested person will attend their trial in a law court. If the arrested person does not attend it, the money will be lost.
• bolster — If you bolster something such as someone's confidence or courage, you increase it.
• stanchion — an upright bar, beam, post, or support, as in a window, stall, ship, etc.
• prop — to support, or prevent from falling, with or as if with a prop (often followed by up): to prop an old fence; to prop up an unpopular government.
• trestle — a frame typically composed of a horizontal bar or beam rigidly joined or fitted at each end to the top of a transverse A-frame, used as a barrier, a transverse support for planking, etc.; horse.
• pile — the lower of two dies for coining by hand.
• boom — If there is a boom in the economy, there is an increase in economic activity, for example in the amount of things that are being bought and sold.
• stud — a studhorse or stallion.
• spar — (during World War II) a woman enlisted in the women's reserve of the U.S. Coast Guard (disbanded in 1946).
• brace — If you brace yourself for something unpleasant or difficult, you prepare yourself for it.
• rafter — a flock, especially of turkeys.
• balk — If you balk at something, you definitely do not want to do it or to let it happen.
• reach — to get to or get as far as in moving, going, traveling, etc.: The boat reached the shore.
• stay — (of a ship) to change to the other tack.
• axle — An axle is a rod connecting a pair of wheels on a car or other vehicle.
• post — power-on self-test