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BONNETED: a dormer with a semicircular roof line, normally containing an arched window. (IMAGE)
BRACKET: a supporting feature under an eave line or raincap, usually decorative. (IMAGE) ...

 


Bonnet top / Swan's neck pediment - 2 shaped curves ending in spirals (volutes) ...

Bonnet - Freestanding fortification; priest's cap.
Boss - Central stone of arch or vault; key stone.
Brattice - Timber tower or projecting wooden gallery; hoarding.

Bonnet Top Highboy:
Highboy with a full dome or hood over the top of the piece, many antique highboys are missing their bonnet or sustained damage over the years.
Bonnet-Top: ...

Bonnet: A small triangular work consisting of two faces which was situated in front and parallel to the salient angle of a bastion or a ravelin, which provided additional defence against enfilade fire.
Borg: A term used to refer to a fortress. (N.).

Laird - Bonnet laird, laird's loft, laird's lug
- (Scottish) Scots landowner. A Bonnet Laird was a small landowner. A lairds' house is now a recognised general term for a particular type of middle ranking 18th century house.

Blockhouse: Small square fortification, usually of timber bond overlapping arrangement of bricks in courses (flemish, dutch, french, etc.) Bonnet: Freestanding fortification; priest's cap.

Bonnet tile - a hip tile with a bonnet-like appearance.
Box Gutter - square shaped gutter, often found behind a parapet wall.

At any rate, when you watch those live crabs that nestle here on this bonnet, such an idea will be almost sure to occur to you; unless, indeed, your fancy has been fixed by the technical term crown also bestowed upon it; ...

See also: House, Architecture, Pediment, Apex, Church

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