skew bridge

English

A skew bridge without a skew arch.

Noun

skew bridge (plural skew bridges)

1. A bridge built obliquely from bank to bank, as sometimes required in railway engineering.
   • 1959 June, J. F. Oxley, D. R. Smith, “The Nottingham-Kettering line of the L.M.R.”, in Trains Illustrated, pages 319–320:

     Just beyond Widmerpool the railway crosses the Roman Fosse Way on the skew. In The Midland Railway: Its Rise and Progress Frederick S. Williams wrote in 1877 that "in reverence to the past, the Midland acquiesced in the matter of a skew bridge, so that the lengthy straight course of the Fosse Way should not be disturbed".

Related terms

• skew arch