bridging

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of bridge

1. not comparableThat acts as a bridge (in many contexts)

   Loading and unloading between platform and train are carried out at the busier stations by means of fork-lift trucks and at smaller points by bridging boards or lifting platforms.

   1964 May, “News and Comment: WR's new parcel traffic method”, in Modern Railways, page 300

plural bridgings

1. The act of building a bridge.

   With him were 60,000 combat engineers for multiple bridgings of the river, and hundreds of thousands of tons of supplies, landing craft, and amphibious vehicles.

   2007, Stanley Weintraub, 15 Stars: Eisenhower, MacArthur, Marshall, page 325

2. architectureThe system of bracing used between floor or other timbers to distribute the weight.

   All the joists and bridgings of the mezzanine floor to have stout double herringbone strutting not more than 6 feet apart.

   1860, Thomas Leverton Donaldson, William Cunningham Glen, Handbook of Specifications, page 319