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Balcony
noun · 78% connection
A platform projecting from the wall of a building, usually resting on brackets or consoles, and inclosed by a parapet; as, a balcony i…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: opening, corbels, support, projecting, parapet.
Baluster
noun · 78% connection
A small column or pilaster, used as a support to the rail of an open parapet, to guard the side of a staircase, or the front of a gall…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: opening, corbels, support, projecting, parapet.
Barbacan
noun · 78% connection
An opening in the wall of a fortress, through which missiles were discharged upon an enemy.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: opening, corbels, support, projecting, parapet.
Carpet
noun · 78% connection
A heavy woven or felted fabric, usually of wool, but also of cotton, hemp, straw, etc.; esp. a floor covering made in breadths to be s…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: opening, corbels, support, projecting, parapet.
Chandelier
noun · 78% connection
A movable parapet, serving to support fascines to cover pioneers.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: opening, corbels, support, projecting, parapet.
Chase
verb · 78% connection
A division of the floor of a gallery, marked by a figure or otherwise; the spot where a ball falls, and between which and the dedans t…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: opening, corbels, support, projecting, parapet.
Corbel
verb · 78% connection
To furnish with a corbel or corbels; to support by a corbel; to make in the form of a corbel.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: opening, corbels, support, projecting, parapet.
Corbel-table
noun · 78% connection
A horizontal row of corbels, with the panels or filling between them; also, less properly used to include the stringcourse on them.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: opening, corbels, support, projecting, parapet.
Creep
noun · 78% connection
A slow rising of the floor of a gallery, occasioned by the pressure of incumbent strata upon the pillars or sides; a gradual movement…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: opening, corbels, support, projecting, parapet.
Filleting
noun · 78% connection
The protecting of a joint, as between roof and parapet wall, with mortar, or cement, where flashing is employed in better work.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: opening, corbels, support, projecting, parapet.
Floor
verb · 78% connection
To cover with a floor; to furnish with a floor; as, to floor a house with pine boards.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: opening, corbels, support, projecting, parapet.
Gallery
adjective · 78% connection
A frame, like a balcony, projecting from the stern or quarter of a ship, and hence called stern gallery or quarter gallery, -- seldom…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: opening, corbels, support, projecting, parapet.
Gap
noun · 78% connection
An opening in anything made by breaking or parting; as, a gap in a fence; an opening for a passage or entrance; an opening which impli…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: opening, corbels, support, projecting, parapet.
Girder
noun · 78% connection
A main beam; a stright, horizontal beam to span an opening or carry weight, such as ends of floor beams, etc.; hence, a framed or buil…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: opening, corbels, support, projecting, parapet.
Hatch
noun · 78% connection
An opening in the deck of a vessel or floor of a warehouse which serves as a passageway or hoistway; a hatchway; also; a cover or door…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: opening, corbels, support, projecting, parapet.
Heading
noun · 78% connection
A gallery, drift, or adit in a mine; also, the end of a drift or gallery; the vein above a drift.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: opening, corbels, support, projecting, parapet.
Interlobular
adjective · 78% connection
Between lobules; as, the interlobular branches of the portal vein.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: opening, corbels, support, projecting, parapet.
Jutting
adjective · 78% connection
Projecting, as corbels, cornices, etc.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: opening, corbels, support, projecting, parapet.
