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English Dictionary: 'Bridging by the DICT Development Group
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Bridge \Bridge\ (br[icr]j), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bridged}
      (br[icr]jd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Bridging}.]
      1. To build a bridge or bridges on or over; as, to bridge a
            river.
  
                     Their simple engineering bridged with felled trees
                     the streams which could not be forded. --Palfrey.
  
      2. To open or make a passage, as by a bridge.
  
                     Xerxes . . . over Hellespont Bridging his way,
                     Europe with Asia joined.                     --Milton.
  
      3. To find a way of getting over, as a difficulty; --
            generally with over.
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