Indent - A shape chiselled out in a stone slab to receive a brass effigy.
Ingo or ingoing - The return face of a wall to provide a recess, usually for a door or window.
Indent
- in masonry, the insertion of a new stone to replace a decayed or damaged one. An indent should always use stone sourced from the original quarry, or should achieve as close a match as possible.
indent - an order for goods to be exported or imported
market order - an order to a broker to sell or buy stocks or commodities at the prevailing market price
production order - an order that initiates the manufacturing process ...
curved indentations that run up and down along a columnÆs shaft.
fluting
Shallow, concave grooves running vertically on a column, pilaster, or other surface. See also column, shaft, pier, pilaster ...
Notched or indented, usually with respect to tops of walls, as in battlements.
Frog An indention, usually V shaped in the bedding face of the brick to reduce its weight. 'Frog down' or 'Frog up' is the generally accepted ways of describing how the bricks are laid.
having a series of indentations, like those in a battlement.
Cromlech
a prehistoric monument consisting of a circle of monoliths.
Battlement: Parapet with indentations or embrasures, with raised portions (merlons) between: Crenelations; A narrow wall built along the outer edge of the wall walk to protect soldiers against attack; ...
This heavily indented coastline provided an ideal area for coastal settlement and some of the earliest remains of Islamic trading sites have been found here. The main islands in this group are Pate, Manda and Lamu.
Dog-tooth - diagonal indented pyramid. Zig-zag carving around an archway, typical of the Normans.
Donjon - a great tower or keep.
Dormer or Dormer window - window placed vertically in sloping roof.
In Islamic architecture, this is a niche or indentation in the wall of a mosque.
A form of indented parapet around the top of castles and towers which may either be defensive or decorative.
Bossages are also rustic work, consisting of stones which seem to advance beyond the surface of the building, by reason of indentures, or channels left in the joinings; used chiefly in the corners of buildings, and called rustic quoins.
CRENELLATED Having repeated square indentations like those in a battlement on a castle. The parapets at the top of the towers of the Churches of St Katherine, Teversal; the two St. Mary Magdalene churches; St. Helen's Church, Selston; and St.
MERLON The raised part of an indented parapet or battlement.
METOPE A plain or decorated space between triglyphs in a Doric frieze.
MOUCHETTE A motif resembling a curved dragger, in Gothic tracery of the curvilinear style.
A parapet topped with alternating indentations and raised portions, originally for defense, but later used as a decorative motif
Crenelated (KREN a laytid): having battlements
Battlements were mainstays in Medieval forts ...
Crenellated - Alternating indentations of a parapet. (Originally for defense, and for firing missiles through).
Cresting - Decoration along the ridge of a roof. Usually perforated cast - or wrought iron or terra-cotta.
embattled molding - having indentions like those of a battlement.
fan tracery vaulting - a system of ceiling vaulting with all ribs having the same curve, resembling the folds of a fan. ...
Crenel, Crenelle: The part of a parapet which is indented alternating with the solid uprights called merlons, which allowed the defenders to fire at the enemy while gaining protection from the merlons against the returned fire.
Any decoration on a building to make it look like a castle, usually a notched or indented parapet originally for protection so inhabitants could shoot through the openings in combat. See also crenellation and battlement.
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Of classical columns, set between pilasters or square columns of equal height, often within a portico.IndentShape chiselled out of a stone to receive a monumental brass.
Castellated - Decorated with battlements (a parapet with alternating indentations and raised portions); also called crenellation. Building with battlements are usually brick or stone.
blind arch - an arch that does not contain an opening for a window or door but is set against or indented within a wall.
bond - the pattern in which bricks are laid for the sake of solidity as well as design.
the face of the towers terminated forced them to uncover themselves to a flanking fire from the indents in the main curtain an either side of the towers.
blind arch: An arch which encloses an opening in a wall which may appear to be a window but which is actually only a shallow indentation in the wall.
Compare with blind arcade, relieving arch.
 See also: Architecture, Battlement, House, Church, Arch
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