A small ornamental bracket, often in the shape of a scroll, used for decorating and supporting a wall fixture.
(Architecture) a triangular bracket of brick or stone (usually of slight extent)
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Examples for "truss "
Examples for "truss "
1 The acquisition also includes a timber joinery, truss manufacturing plant and offices.
2 They've also lost at least two solar arrays and several truss segments.
3 There seemed to be no trace of incipient fire in the truss .
4 The truss is just as good as the day I bought it.
5 Thus in a wooden truss bridge the tension members are steel rods.
1 Parapets were at the same time added above the Norman corbel tables.
2 Since then, she has been immortalised with a stone corbel .
3 The original corbel course of the parapet remains, but not the upper part of the parapet.
4 Above this is a corbel table of heads and mouldings which interferes with the upper window mouldings.
5 Immediately below the corbel , and well detached from the squadrons of attendant saints, Christ rises from His throne.
6 There was a slight wind, and I was glad to have nothing to do with the iron corbel .
7 You know how to lay a corbel , but just now you couldn't tell me how much cribbing was coming.
8 Scholars debate whether the name was meant to suggest a crow (corbeau) or even corbel , an architectural term.
9 If they gave a month or more to the carving of a single capital or corbel , he made no remonstrance.
10 Fantastic corbel -heads and other sculptured details disappear every year from the Gothic houses, and find their way into private museums.
11 The fine bosses in both transepts merit attention, and so do the corbel - heads to the intermediate vaulting shafts in this one.
12 Two flying buttresses rise from the corners of the nave and transept aisles to the corbel table of the clerestory range.
13 The space between each corbel is bridged over by small single stones cut out to the shape of a semicircular arch.
14 One fancies each corbel to have had its history, its archetype in nature; a thousand possible stories spring into one's mind.
15 If you wish to throw out any bold projection, you may support it on a long and sloping corbel of brickwork.
16 Their arched Victorian corbel style in extrimoz marble is reduced from €4,950 to €2,475.
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