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a steel skeleton that holds up rockets right until it has to let go
means A bridge-like overhead framework that supports equipment such as cranes, signals, or rockets, often spanning across a wide area on legs or rails.
from From the older 'gauntree,' a wooden stand or frame for resting barrels, which traces back through Old North French 'gantier' to Latin 'cantherius' — a beast of burden, a packhorse, and by extension a frame or trestle that 'carries.' So the word's deep ancestor is a workhorse: something built to bear a heavy load, whether that's a cask of wine or a column of rocket fuel.
- rocket duty
- feeds fuel and crew, then swings clear seconds before liftoff
- crane cousin
- rolls on rails to lift cargo at ports
- named after
- likely from a word for a wooden barrel stand
- 3D printers
- the moving frame that carries the print head
- radiotherapy
- rotates beams 360 degrees around cancer patients