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Sill
Horizontal member at the bottom of a window or door frame; sometimes spelt cill. Also the horizontal member at the base of a timber-framed wall, into which the posts and studs are tenoned.
Sill or cill - The horizontal member at the base of a timber-framed wall into which the posts and studs are normally tenoned. Also the horizontal member at the bottom of a window-opening or door-frame. Windows and doors rest on sills.
sill - The framing that forms the lower side of a window or door. A lug sill extends beyond the width of a window, where a slip sill is only as wide as the window.
soffit - The exposed underside of an arch, cornice, balcony or beam ...
Sill -- The bottom crosspiece on a window frame.
Siding -- The exterior wall covering or sheathing of a structure.
Spalling -- Flaking of the outer face of masonry, often caused by expanding moisture in freezing conditions.
SILL The flat horizontal bottom piece of a window or door, often of wood, but sometimes of stone.
STOOP The uncovered wide step leading into the front or main door of a building.
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The lower horizontal part of a window frame. Materials vary widely, from wood to marble.
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Sill - A main horizontal member forming the bottom of a window or door assembly.
Simulated Divided Lite - Windows or doors that contain one piece of glass with internal spacer bars which provide the illusion of a true divided lite.
Sill A horizontal piece forming the bottom frame of a window or door opening.
Skylight A window in a roof to give light to a loft or room without other lighting.
Sill: Horizontal member at the bottom of the window frame.
Simulated divided lights: A method in constructing windows or doors in which muntins are fixed to the inside and outside of the insulated glass panel to simulate the look of a true ...
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The horizontal ledge at the bottom of a window frame; slopes away from the building to prevent water from entering.
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Sill - The horizontal member at the bottom of a window or door.
Soffit - The exposed underside of any architectural element, especially a roof.
Sill - Lower horizontal face of an opening.
Sleeper - Lowest horizontal timber (or low wall).
Soffit - Underside of arch, hung parapet, or opening.
Sill: (1) In a wood-frame house, the sill is a wooden member that rests on top of the foundation (and, per today's building codes, is anchored to it by bolts).
SILL The horizontal ledge at the bottom of a window frame.
SLATE A fine-grained metamorphic rock that splits into thin, smooth-surfaced layers. In building, most often used in this area for roofing.
SILL
Horizontal member at the bottom of a window or door frame; or at the base of a timber-framed wall into which posts and studs are tenoned.
Sill - A horizontal timber member at the bottom of the frame of a window or door, on the external face to shed water. A masonry sill projects beyond the pane of the wall, below the timber sill. (also: cill).
Box Sill - A type of sill employing a continuous header with the appearance being responsible for the name.
WINDOW SILL - the base of a window opening.
CROSS RAIL - a main horizontal piece of wood between the wall plate and the sill.
SILL - the bottom of the wall.
Sill/Cill
- horizontal member at the base of a window opening or door frame, usually projecting to throw water from the face of the building. A reprise (Scottish) is a pad worked into a cill to take the foot of a mullion.
Sill - the base or support at the bottom of a niche or window.
Span - the horizontal distance between the two supporting members of a vault or arch.
Spring Line - the point or line where an arch or vault begins to curve.
Sill: The horizontal bottom member of a window frame
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Sill The main horizontal member forming the bottom of the frame of a window or door
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Sill: Horizontal member that forms the bottom of a window frame.
Sill course (soldier course): The row of brick, cement blocks or stones laid across the bottom of a masonry opening which lay under the outside edge of the window sill.
sill - the horizontal water-shedding element at the bottom of a window or door frame
siding - the exterior wall covering of a structure ...
Below the sill of the window is a ledge that is held up by corbels that are also in the shape of heads.
The lower window treatment has a repeated lancet arhc frieze with heads on either side also used as corbels.
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Cill - see "sill".
Cleaning Eye - sometimes known as an 'access eye' or 'rodding eye'. An opening in a drain or ventilation pipe, covered by a plate, the removal of which allows the drain to be rodded to clear blockages.
The wall under a window sill, down to the floor
Breast Drill - A large hand drill operated with both hands, with an extension and plate for thrust from the user's chest ...
Large vertical planks or studs that are rough sawn or planed are placed next to each other on a sill at the bottom and either extends to a plate at the top or continues to the roof. Sometimes every 16"-20" a stud is mortised into the sill. (IMAGE) ...
apron: the raised panel beneath a windows sill, sometimes shaped or decorated.
apse: semi-circular or polygonal structure, often the end of a chancel, forming a recess inside a building and a projection outside.
Sometimes it is employed purely as a decorative feature beneath the sill of a window which was not carried down to r the ground.
Any aircraft where the emergency exit door sill height is above that which would make unaided escape possible is fitted with an automatic inflatable evacuation slide.
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balloon frame - introduced in the 1830s, a system of framing a building in which wood studs extend in one piece from the top of the foundation sill-plate to the top roof plate; ...
BALLOONWORK Timber-frame construct ion, in which upright studs run from sill to eaves amid horizontal pieces are nailed to them.
BALUSTRADE A railing with posts or balusters and a handrail.
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Platform Framing - A system of framing a building on which floor joists of each story rest on the top plates of the story below (or on the foundation sill for the first story) and the bearing walls and partitions rest on the subfloor of each ...
spandrel The roughly triangular surface between two adjacent arches. or the portion of wall between the top of one window and the window sill above it.
stanchion A vertical supporting beam.
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This term applies to several construction features; the top horizontal support of a rough opening, the support for joist- ends on the foundation walls sill and the support for joist- ends in a floor or roof opening.
Sill - lower horizontal face of an opening.
Six-foil - six-lobed.
Sleeper - lowest horizontal timber (or low wall).
Slight - to damage or destroy a castle to render it unfit for use or occupation as a fortress.
The first level consists of the doorway covered by a steep sloping sill above which is the second level containing a rectangular panel with a square window in the middle.
 See also: Frame, House, Door, Floor, Brick
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