Crossword-Solution: STRINGERS 9 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

The shanty--a temporary structure, good only for the life of the work--rested on a set of stringers laid on extra piles driven outside of the working-platform.

That quay was then a wooden one, a fine structure of mighty piles and stringers bearing a roadway--a thing of great strength.

Then one joking wave caught her up at the bow, and another at the stern, while the rest of the water slunk away from under her just to see how she would like it; so she was held up at her two ends only, and the weight of the cargo and the machinery fell on the groaning iron keels and bilge-stringers.

The joists and stringers, all outlined and gemmed with coals, are, as it were, a golden grille, through which the world may look unhindered in upon the holy place of home, heretofore conventually private.

After Gregg and Custer had gone, it was discovered that the railroad bridge over the Pamunkey, near the White House, had been destroyed but partially--the cross-ties and stringers being burned in places only--and that it was practicable to repair it sufficiently to carry us over.