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Noun: cantilever  'kan-ti,lee-vu(r)
  1. Projecting horizontal beam fixed at one end only
Verb: cantilever  'kan-ti,lee-vu(r)
  1. Project as a cantilever
     
  2. (architecture) construct with girders and beams such that only one end is fixed
    "Frank Lloyd Wright liked to cantilever his buildings"

Derived forms: cantilevering, cantilevered, cantilevers

Type of: beam, build, construct, jut, jut out, make, project, protrude, stick out

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