Drop
Also called a gutta (pron. GUT a; plural: guttae)
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Drop tracery - A border of pendant tracery on the Soffit of a Gothic arch
Monastery of Santa Maria da Vitoria, Batalha, Leira, Portugal
Drops - English term for Guttae.
Drop arch. * Arch.
Drum. * Dome.
Enamel. A siliceous substance made from a mixture of feldspar, quartz, carbonate and sodium chloride. Used to decorate ceramics and metals.
Drop-leaf
A leaf, hinged to the side of a table, which drops at the side when not in use.
Drum table ...
drop off - fall or diminish; "The number of students in this course dropped off after the first test"
vaporize, vanish, fly - decrease rapidly and disappear; "the money vanished in las Vegas"; "all my stock assets have vaporized" ...
Drop box: A feature in gatehouses and barbicans, consisting of holes through the floor of the structure over the entry, that were used to drop missiles and other offensive materials on the enemy below. See meurtriéres, murder holes.
7. Drop arches, with centres within the arch.
8. Lancet arches, with centres outside the arch.
9. Three centre arches, employed in French Flamboyant.
Provide a drop-off/pickup lane for buses only.
Minimize the number of driveways or parking lots that students will need to cross.
Close the main student parking lot during the school day.
The wedge shaped elements that make up an arch keep one another in palce and transform the vertical pressure of the structure above into lateral pressure; Can be round-headed, pointed, two-centered, or drop; ogee - pointed with double curved sides, ...
The test is satisfactory if the pressure does not drop below 75 mm within 5 minutes. Air tests are used for gravity pipes, e.g. the sanitary pipework above ground ...
ParapetWall for protection at any sudden drop, e.g. on a bridge, or at the wall-head of a castle where it protects the parapet walk or wall-walk. Also used to conceal a roof.
A timber gallery built out at the top of a wall or tower, sometimes with a roof, which had doors in the floor through which one could drop offensive material upon or shoot arrows at one's attackers .
Sheets of tin were stamped one at a time using rope drop hammers and cast iron molds. Using this method of production, metal was sandwiched between two interlocking tools.
Arch - Can be round-headed, pointed, two-centered, or drop; ogee - pointed with double curved sides, upper arcs lower concave; lancet - pointed formed on an acute-angle triangle; depressed - flattened or elliptical; corbelled - triangular, peaked, ...
The windows on the top row have a semicircular arch being the intrados with a drop arch above as the extrados. The lower row have a pseudo-three-centered arch as the intrados and a two centered pointed arch as the extrados.
Escutcheon
- an ornamental covering to a keyhole. A drop escutcheon has a hinged or pivoting flap covering the keyhole.
Also, a shield bearing a coat of arms.
PARAPET
Wall for protection at any sudden drop. Also used to conceal a roof.
PARGETING
(lit. plastering): Exterior plaster decoration, either moulded in relief or incised.
FLEMISH GABLE A decorative gable form ,often seen in Flanders and the Netherlands, the sides of which drop in a cascade of right angles, also called a crow-stepped gable. Used as a decorative embellishment in Victorian era styles in the USA.
parapet - a low wall used as protection in any location where there is a drop like at the edge of a roof, balcony or terrac.
rafter - An inclined timber which forms the side of a roof, to which the roof covering is attached..
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a stone structure that projected from the top of a wall with gaps through which defenders could drop heavy objects, such as rocks, onto attackers below
Mail or chain mail
flexible armour made of interlocking metal rings ...
A gallery projecting on brackets and built on the outside of castle towers and walls,with openings in the floor through which to drop molten lead, boiling oil, and missiles. Compare with hoarding
machiya ...
Even their roofs are breathtaking and detailed to the last drop of gloss or paint. Probably the most under-appreciated structure in all of China is the Forbidden City.
parapet - a wall section rising above the roofline; a low wall, sometimes battlemented, placed to protect any spot where there is a sudden drop, for example, at the edge of a bridge or house-top.
Russia, Eastern European, and Islamic architecture PALAZZO: a fortress-like, three-storied home during the Italian Renaissance, usually featuring a rusticated stone exterior PARAPET: a low wall placed to protect any spot where there is a sudden drop ...
In the architecture of fortifications, an overhanging gallery projecting on brackets and built on the outside of towers and walls, with openings in the floor through which defenders could drop missiles and boiling liquids onto attackers.
 See also: Architecture, House, Ornament, Church, Floor
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