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may be drawn back, falling by its own gravity or pushed into place by a spring. Used with high doors of rooms or book-cases. Chain-bridge. 1. A form of ferry-bridge in which the passage is made by chains laid across the river and anchored on each side, and moving over chain-wheels on board, driven by engines. Such a ferry-bridge used to cross the Itchen River, Hampshire, England. The chain pier of Brighton was erected in 1822. The chains of Hungerford Bridge, London, were moved to Clifton, near Bristol, and now span the Avon. The span is 720 feet; hight above water, 260 feet. See ferry-bridge. 2. An early (for Europe) form of the suspensionbridge in which catenary chains supported the floor. The first was erected over the Tees, in England, in 1741. Rods with eyes and connecting-links were used by Telford on the Menai Suspension Bridge, 1829; steel wires laid up (not twisted) into cables are now used. See suspension-bridge; Frontispiece. Chain-bond. The tying t

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