lift girders

[pynchonoid]

The lift girders come before the lift gilders.


--- Steven <mcquaryq at comcast.net> wrote:

> 	Well put.  But for a further gander into the
> etymology: the OT Bible  
> speaks of 'girding up one's loins'.  Presumably this
> also was done  
> with lift girders.  And, over time, as gender
> distinctions became  
> moot, 'lift girdles' were first employed by women
> warriors in Spartan  
> Greece.  Today the term is rare, all but obsolete,
> but the  
> foundational technology remains in play.
> 
> On Nov 10, 2006, at 5:15 PM, David Morris wrote:
> 
> > We know what a girder is (a primary beam in a
> steel frame structure),
> > and we know what a lift is (an elevator).  So a
> "lift girder" could
> > mean a part of the structural frame in an elevator
> shaft.
> 


 
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