Pile. A deep foundation. These are formed by creating a hole deep enough to locate solid sub-soil. The hole is usually filled with concrete and reinforced or a section of solid steel is installed.
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double pile: a house two rooms thick in plan.
dressings: blocks of stone that have been cut with true plane faces or shaped into quoins or keystones.
Pile tower: See pele.
Place: A word used in military architecture when referring to a fortification or a fortified town.
Double pile plan
- a plan which has two rooms throughout the depth of the building ie, a room at the front matched by a room at the rear.
Neolithic pile dwellings have been excavated in Sweden (Alvastra pile dwelling) and in the circum-Alpine area, with remains being found at the Mondsee and Attersee lakes in Upper Austria.
Belled-out bored in situ concrete pile - A deep foundation bored down to good ground and widened at the bottom to reduce the bearing pressure
Below Ground Level - Said of work on the substructure and foundation and for buried services ...
touted the Inn and surrounding Roycroft Campus as a tourist's delight, offering amenities including "electric lights, steam heat, Turkish baths, running water, art gallery, chapel, camp-in woods, library, music room, ballroom, garden and wood pile.
To construct a man-made levee, workers pile dirt or concrete along the river banks, creating an embankment. This embankment is flat at the top, and slopes at an angle down to the water.
2. A dense, low-pile surface, as in carpeting, resembling such cloth.
[Middle English frise, from Old French, from Medieval Latin (pann) frsi, woolen (garments), from pl. of Frsius, Frisian.]
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An outdoor altar made from a pile of stones, normally square, which may mark a special grave.
Lectern -
A reading desk, often in the shape of an eagle, made to hold the Bible during services. Usually made of brass.
And they came to the place which God had shewn him, where he built an altar, and laid the wood in order upon it: and when he had bound Isaac his son, he laid him on the altar upon the pile of wood.
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