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Alestake
noun · 78% connection
A stake or pole projecting from, or set up before, an alehouse, as a sign; an alepole. At the end was commonly suspended a garland, a…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: ornament, woodwork, upon, gable, house.
Baldachin
noun · 78% connection
A structure in form of a canopy, sometimes supported by columns, and sometimes suspended from the roof or projecting from the wall; ge…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: ornament, woodwork, upon, gable, house.
Baseboard
noun · 78% connection
A board, or other woodwork, carried round the walls of a room and touching the floor, to form a base and protect the plastering; -- al…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: ornament, woodwork, upon, gable, house.
Boom
noun · 78% connection
A long spar or beam, projecting from the mast of a derrick, from the outer end of which the body to be lifted is suspended.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: ornament, woodwork, upon, gable, house.
Brassart
noun · 78% connection
Armor for the arm; -- generally used for the whole arm from the shoulder to the wrist, and consisting, in the 15th and 16th centuries,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: ornament, woodwork, upon, gable, house.
Buhlwork
noun · 78% connection
Decorative woodwork in which tortoise shell, yellow metal, white metal, etc., are inlaid, forming scrolls, cartouches, etc.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: ornament, woodwork, upon, gable, house.
Carving
noun · 78% connection
The whole body of decorative sculpture of any kind or epoch, or in any material; as, the Italian carving of the 15th century.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: ornament, woodwork, upon, gable, house.
Clinker-built
adjective · 78% connection
Having the side planks (af a boat) so arranged that the lower edge of each overlaps the upper edge of the plank next below it like cla…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: ornament, woodwork, upon, gable, house.
Crane
noun · 78% connection
A machine for raising and lowering heavy weights, and, while holding them suspended, transporting them through a limited lateral dista…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: ornament, woodwork, upon, gable, house.
Crocket
noun · 78% connection
An ornament often resembling curved and bent foliage, projecting from the sloping edge of a gable, spire, etc.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: ornament, woodwork, upon, gable, house.
Crowstone
noun · 78% connection
The top stone of the gable end of a house.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: ornament, woodwork, upon, gable, house.
Cunabula
n. pl. · 78% connection
The extant copies of the first or earliest printed books, or of such as were printed in the 15th century.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: ornament, woodwork, upon, gable, house.
Doublet
adjective · 78% connection
A close-fitting garment for men, covering the body from the neck to the waist or a little below. It was worn in Western Europe from th…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: ornament, woodwork, upon, gable, house.
Espauliere
noun · 78% connection
A defense for the shoulder, composed of flexible overlapping plates of metal, used in the 15th century; -- the origin of the modern ep…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: ornament, woodwork, upon, gable, house.
Falconet
noun · 78% connection
One of the smaller cannon used in the 15th century and later.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: ornament, woodwork, upon, gable, house.
Feather-edged/
adjective · 78% connection
Having a feather-edge; also, having one edge thinner than the other, as a board; -- in the United States, said only of stuff one edge…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: ornament, woodwork, upon, gable, house.
Flamboyant
adjective · 78% connection
Characterized by waving or flamelike curves, as in the tracery of windows, etc.; -- said of the later (15th century) French Gothic sty…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: ornament, woodwork, upon, gable, house.
Gablet
noun · 78% connection
A small gable, or gable-shaped canopy, formed over a tabernacle, niche, etc.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: ornament, woodwork, upon, gable, house.