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RAIL - a bar that extends from baluster to baluster that serves as a barrier.
NEWEL POST - a post at the foot of a straight stairway or one at a landing .
RISER - the vertical part of a step between the treads.
Rail - A horizontal member in the frame of a door, window, panel, etc.
rail - Horizontal members of a door or window
raking molding - Molding that follows the slope of a gable or pediment
relieving arch - An arch embedded into a wall to relieve the section below it. It is often found over a lintel ...
Rail: Horizontal member of a window sash or door panel.
Rough Opening: A framed opening in which the unit will be installed.
Rail A horizontal part of a door frame or window.
Raked Pitched, sloping.
Relieving Arch An additional arch over a lintel.
top rail
The upper rail of the top sash of a double hung window.
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Top-rail
Torchiere
Type of floor lamp equipped with a decorative glass or metal reflector bowl designed to throw light upward.
Dado Rail: Wooden moulding fixed horizontally to a wall, about 1 metre above the floor, originally intended to protect the wall against damage by chair-backs now very much a decorative feature.
Dado rail - Decorative and/ or functional rails, usually made from moulded timber, fitted traditionally to internal walls to protect them from damage by chairs.
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Dado Rail A wooden moulding fixed to the wall or capping panelling and forming the top most part of a dado. Originally designed to avoid damage to the wall where people or furniture brushed against it. May conceal rising dampness.
Core-rail
An iron band is frequently used in geometrical stairs to give extra strength and stiffness to the handrail. It is generally about 4 in. thick, being screwed into a groove formed in the underside of the handrail.
CHAIR RAIL A chair rail is decorative wooden trim attached horizontally at the approximate height of the back of a straight chair.
Chair-rail molding - A wooden molding placed along the loweer part of the wall to prevent chairs, when pused back, from damaging the wall. Also used as decoration.
Chancel - The easternmost part of a church, in which the alter is housed.
Rail: A bar extending horizontally between supports
Ribbon - See "Band" above ...
RAIL
Horizontal structural member of a door or sash.
RAILING
A fence or balustrade made of rails and posts with no protruding finials.
Rail The horizontal top & bottom members of a window sash or door panel.
Rough opening
The framed opening in a wall into which a window or door until is to be installed.
Chair Rail
- name given to moulding on an internal wall at dado height, unlike a dado rail there is no panelling below. To prevent the backs of chairs damaging the wall.
Check rail: On a double-hung window, the bottom rail of the upper sash and the upper rail of the lower sash, where the lock is mounted.
meeting rail The rail of a double-hung window sash designed to interlock with the adjacent rail.
modillion A projecting scroll-shaped bracket or simple horizontal block arranged in series under the soffit of a cornice.
An arris rail is a structural element, whose cross sectional area is a right angled triangle.
Bottom Rail - The horizontal bottom member of a framed door, casement or lower sash
Bottom Tie - A base tie of a pressed metal door frame ...
Casement A window hinged on one of its vertical sides to open inwards or outwards like a door Cavity-wall (also called Cavity Brick) A brick wall laid in 2 close rows which are connected by ties Chair-rail (often called Dado-rail) A ...
A horizontal member in panelling or in a timber-framed wall. See also edge rail, plate rail (railways).Rainwater-headA container at the top of a downpipe, usually of lead, into which rainwater runs from the gutters.Raised and fielded ...
balustrade:
a rail and the row of posts that support it, as along the edge of a staircase
bay:
a part of a building or other structure marked off by vertical elements; an opening or recess in a wall; an extension or a building ...
Until the advent of rail and more recently air travel, the Hajj was a very arduous and risky undertaking requiring considerable preparation.
baluster one of a series of short vertical posts that support a rail and form a balustrade, often forming the roofline of a building as well as the border of a staircase or porch.
balustradeA baluster is a short pillar with a curved outline and a balustrade is a barrier made with pillars of this type and topped with a coping or rail.
In this case, condos or lofts literally surround a light-rail station on the L.A. Metro Gold Line, providing commuters with a simple, half-hour commute to downtown L.A. without a car. Also an easy four-block walk to Old-Town Pasadena.
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Corridors are regional connectors of neighborhoods and districts; they range from boulevards and rail lines to rivers and parkways.
There is usually a long kneeling rail between the congregation and the pulpit. If there is a communion table, it is located between the kneeling rail and the pulpit. To receive communion, the congregation comes up and kneels at the rail.
Hamilton was a much more impressive city in 1890 than the other Canadian city on the TH&B rail system. Sarah Burnhardt played in Hamilton on her way through, not Toronto.
A Balustrade is a hand-rail supported by balusters.
Base Line
A Base Line is any imaginary line on the earth's surface running due east and west, from which township lines are established; ...
Baluster - A short post or pillar in a series supporting a rail or coping and thus a balustrade.
Balustrade - A railing system, generally around a balcony or on a second level, consisting of balusters and a top rail.
BALUSTER
A short post or pillar in a series that supports a rail, forming a balustrade. May be curved or straight.
BALUSTRADE
Series of balusters supporting a handrail or coping.
balustrade (13) -- a row of balusters, surmounted by a rail, forming an ornamented parapet or barrier along the edge of a terrace or balcony (Oxford Dict.)
banding (5)
barbotine (2)/barbotine (relief decoration) (10) ...
Baluster -- A turned or rectangular upright member supporting a stair rail.
Balustrade -- An entire railing system with top rail and balusters.
a series of balusters, or upright pillars, supporting a rail (as along the edge of a balcony or bridge).
Baptistery
a building, usually round or polygonal, used for Christian baptismal services.
Small columns joined together by a rail; these can be found on the top of buildings, used in balconies, or in staircases.
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cresting A decorative rail, or a row of finials, or another feature at the top of a building, often along the ridge of the roof.
Cutstone Large stones cut individually, used for a foundation or wall of a house.D
Dado The zone between a chair rail or lower part of a sill and the baseboard.
Dentil A molding motif that projects from the edge of a roof line or cornice.
Here you can see the unique "step up rail" that the Japanese created for less strenuous stepping.
Dado - the lower part of a wall, below the dado rail and above the skirting board; mid section of a pedestal, between base and cornice
Dentil - Molding made up of rows of small square blocks ...
Balustrade - A series of short vertical posts, often ornamental, used to support a rail at a stairway, porch or roof.
Window-wall - A timber modular window system developed by Stegbar in the 1960s with a square of top-hung sashes, over a chain-rail, versions of which are still available.
volute - a spiral scroll, as on Ionic (especially characteristic), Corinthian, or Composite capitals, or on consoles, etc.; a stair crook having an easement with a sprial section of stair rail.
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