Balustrade: alternatives and connections

Topped up; having one yardarm higher than the other.

One of the beams connecting the successive supports of a trestle bridge or bateau bridge.

Having balusters.

A raised way or foot bank, running along the inside of a parapet, on which musketeers stand to fire upon the enemy.

pl. The whole parapet, consisting of alternate solids and open spaces. At first purely a military feature, afterwards copied on a smal…

The upper rail of any parapet of ordinary height, as of a balcony; the railing of a quarter-deck, etc.

To build a bridge or bridges on or over; as, to bridge a river.

A bridge keeper; a warden or a guard for a bridge.

A fortification commanding the extremity of a bridge nearest the enemy, to insure the preservation and usefulness of the bridge, and p…

The mass of stone or solid work at the end of a bridge, by which the extreme arches are sustained, or by which the end of a bridge wit…

To make an indentation in the edge of a metal plate, as along a seam in a steam boiler or an iron ship, to force the edge of the upper…

A movable parapet, serving to support fascines to cover pioneers.

A created or high-topped crown or head.

flat-topped or convex inflorescence in which the individual flower stalks grow upward from various points on the main stem to approxim…

A stone /et along a margin as a and protection, as along the edge of a sidewalk next the roadway; an edge stone.

more or less flat-topped cluster of flowers in which the central or terminal flower opens first

A bank or rounded hillock of sand thrown up by the wind along or near the shore; a flattish-topped hill; -- usually in the plural.

To be drawn along, as a rope or dress, on the ground; to trail; to be moved onward along the ground, or along the bottom of the sea, a…