bolster - support and strengthen; "bolster morale"
bolster up
reenforce, reinforce - make stronger; "he reinforced the concrete" ...
Bolster - A broad based steel brick layer's chisel with a blade about 110 mm wide ...
Droved (droving) is also a tooling process, where the grooves are cut with a bolster to form a series of lines which are the length of the blade (35-50mm) only. Droving is more usually vertical and tends to be finer than broaching.
Kaufmann was out Sunday (December 20) and found a new fracture in the south parapet wall over center bolster beam. This is another proof that the southeast corner has gone down.
Countering this, they often implemented their projects in the colonial world, bolstering their claims to universality while seeing 'traditional' society as the best tableau for their aesthetic and ideological programs.
When books revealing the mathematical precision of the Classical designers were discovered, this helped to bolster the idea that the Greeks had education as well as style, reinforcing the value of the style itself.
 See also: Architecture, House, Floor, System, Palace
  
|
RSS
