Other forms: gantries
A gantry is an overhead frame carrying a crane or signals. A motorway gantry, the launch gantry, a gantry crane.
On a motorway it is the frame across the carriageway holding the signs and the cameras. A gantry crane runs on rails and lifts between its own legs, which is how container ports work. The launch gantry is the tower a rocket is serviced from.
1noungantryAn overhead frame carrying a crane or signals.
“The rocket stood beside its launch gantry, ready for take-off.”
gantry is a frame.
Probably from an old dialect word for a wooden stand, ultimately from a Latin word for a barrel frame.
Latin
cantarium
fro-nor
gantier
Middle English
*gaunter
English, today
gantry
From earlier gauntree, possibly from dialectal gaun + tree, perhaps as a reinterpretation of Middle English gaunter, from fro-nor gantier, from Latin cantarium, from Latin canterius (“trellis, sort of frame”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA