Drawbridge

Noun

 * 1) A bridge which can be raised (to prevent its being crossed, as across a moat, or to allow watercraft to travel beneath it).

Thesaurus
Bifrost, abatis, advanced work, balistraria, bank, banquette, barbed-wire entanglement, barbican, barricade, barrier, bartizan, bascule bridge, bastion, bateau bridge, battlement, breastwork, bridge, bulwark, cantilever bridge, casemate, catwalk, cheval-de-frise, circumvallation, contravallation, counterscarp, curtain, demibastion, dike, earthwork, enclosure, entanglement, escarp, escarpment, fence, fieldwork, floating bridge, flyover, footbridge, fortalice, fortification, gangboard, gangplank, gangway, glacis, lift bridge, loophole, lunette, machicolation, mantelet, merlon, mound, outwork, overbridge, overcrossing, overpass, palisade, parados, parapet, pontoon bridge, portcullis, postern gate, rampart, ravelin, redan, redoubt, rope bridge, sally port, scarp, sconce, span, stepping-stone, stepstone, stockade, suspension bridge, swing bridge, tenaille, toll bridge, vallation, vallum, viaduct, work

Etymology
From draw: + bridge:.

Translations

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: (diàoqiáo)
 * Dutch: ophaalbrug
 * French:


 * Icelandic: vindubrú
 * Italian:
 * Portuguese: ponte levadiça
 * Russian: разводной мост