drum up
1. To bring about by continuous, persistent effort: drum up new business.
2. To devise; invent: drummed up an alibi.
Drum Tower - A large, circular, low, squat tower built into a wall.
Drystone - Unmortared masonry.
Dungeon - The jail, usually found in one of the towers.
drum: cylindrical substructure of a dome, although a drum can exist without a dome.
Dutch gable: a gable with curved sides, convex, concave or both, usually with a small pediment at the top.
Drum. * Dome.
Enamel. A siliceous substance made from a mixture of feldspar, quartz, carbonate and sodium chloride. Used to decorate ceramics and metals.
Drum table
A round table with a deep apron resembling a drum.
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drum-tower : A large, circular tower, usually low and squat.
drystone : Unmortared masonry.
eave : the edge of a roof. Eaves usually project beyond the side of the building.
Drum
(a) one of the cylindrical blocks of stone from which the shaft of a column is made; (b) the circular or polygonal wall of a building surmounted by a dome or cupola.
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Drum
A cylindrical or polygonal wall which supports a dome. Also called a tambour. Also used to describe the cylindrical sections of stone that make up the shaft of a column.
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drum: A cylindrical wall which supports a dome.
drum pier: Find definition See also: pier, alternation of support Other types of piers: composite
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[edit] Drum columns
In most parts of Europe, Romanesque columns were massive, as they supported thick upper walls with small windows, and sometimes heavy vaults.
dome-on-drum construction
The Romans used this method to construct their domes. The dome section was placed on top of a round drum (like a low cut cylinder) section which often was placed over a square or rectangular section.
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Drum
- either a section from a cylindrical column, or the lower part of a dome.
Drum Tower: a round tower built into a wall
Dungeon: the jail, usually found in one of the towers
Enceinte: an enclosing wall, usually exterior, of a fortified place ...
Drum tower: A squat round tower which was used as a flanking tower for curtain walls, gatehouses and barbicans. See flanking tower.
Other types of piers: drum pier Concentric: Having two sets of walls, one inside the other. Confessio: A type of crypt which consists of a series of linked passages.
on a circular base which can be segmental, semicircular, pointed, or bulbous DORIC ORDER: the earliest of the Greek orders also adapted by the Romans DORMER WINDOW: a window placed vertically in a sloping roof and with a roof of its own DRUM: a ...
Its drum, pierced by circular windows, stands without buttressing, for the base contains a tension ring-huge stone blocks held together with iron clamps and topped with heavy iron chains.
The dome covering the area in front of the mihrab is built of stone and rests on a drum supported by large shell-shaped squinches. The dome has a gadrooned form which internally takes the form of thin radiating ribs.
It may be supported on a circular wall, as in the Pantheon at Rome; or on a drum, as in the later Byzantine churches and generally so in the Renaissance styles; or be carried over a square or polygonal area, ...
DOME Often a hemispherical covering rising from a roof; may be surmounted by a cupola and may be raised over a circular or polygonal drum. This drum is frequently pierced by openings or windows.
DRIPSTONE See hood-mould.
The grand first floor façades of the Opera House in Lyon are the base for a dramatic new drum roof. The arched glass windows give the building a jeweled appearance that is both modern yet compatible with the historic structure.
The base may be circular, square or polygonal (many-sided), depending on the plan of the drum (the walls on which the dome rests).
The section of a dome may be the same shape as any arch.
The council chamber is within the drum of the rotunda, administration takes place in the tower, and everything else takes place in the rectangular areas of the building. The overall effect is not similar to that of a Classical building at all.
pendentive The curved and sloping surfaces beneath a dome that mark the transition from the circle of the dome (or its drum) to the square of the supports.
Huelsenbeck is banging away nonstop on the great drum, with Ball accompanying him on the piano, pale as a chalky ghost.
 See also: Architecture, Dome, Ground, Tower, Floor
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