Trap - A fitting or device so designed and constructed as to provide a liquid trap seal which will prevent the passage of air through it.
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A plumbing device preventing sewage odors from entering the house.
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trap - a device in which something (usually an animal) can be caught and penned
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Fall trap: A form of gateway defence. See drop box, meurtiéres.
False machicolations: Brackets serving a purely decorative function. See blind machicolations, bracket, mock machicolations.
INTERCEPTOR - Trap in drain to prevent foul air entering from sewer.
INVERT - Bottom of manhole or drain.
INTERSTITIAL CONDENSATION - Trapped moisture in timber frame walls and flat roofs, double glazing.
Bottle Trap - A trap on the waste from a kitchen sink or bathroom basin which has a bottle shaped cap that can be removed to clean out any rubbish causing a blockage, such as matches, hairpins and hair.
Oubliette: A dungeon reached by a trap door; starvation hole.
P Palisade: A sturdy wooden fence built to enclose a site until a permanent stone wall could be constructed Palmette: Looped like a palm-leaf.
Rat trap - a construction of headers and stretchers in which the bricks used are laid on edge, as a result a cavity is formed - the rat trap.
Rubbers - large bricks which are then rubbed to size, giving a very precise, smooth finish.
Oubliette - a dungeon reached by a trap door; starvation hole Oubliette dungeon or pit under the floor, reached by a trap-door, used for incarcerating prisoners.
Outer Curtain - the wall the encloses the outer ward.
Oubliette: a dungeon reached by a trap door
Palisade: a sturdy wooden fence built to enclose a site until a permanent stone wall could be constructed
Parapet: protective wall at the top of a fortification, around the outer side of the wall-walk ...
Oubliette - A dungeon reached by a trap door; starvation hole
Outer Curtain - The wall the encloses the outer ward.
Outer Ward - The area around the outside of and adjacent to the inner curtain.
dungeon or pit under the floor, reached by a trap-door, used for incarcerating prisoners
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The vertical part in the framing of a door, screen or (especially) panelling.Murder holeSmall rectangular trap in the ceiling of an entrance passage in a castle or tower house.Mutules ...
Badgir
Iranian term for wind tower. Tall chimney-like structure which projects above the roof of a building to expel warm air in the day and trap cooler breezes at night.
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Bond The regular arrangements of bricks, blocks or stones in a wall so that the units may be joined together. The principal types of bond used in domestic construction are English, Flemish, header, stretcher, rat-trap, ...
are no more than two storeys high and houses built with natural ventilation, using wind towers and badghirs, the devices for speeding up the flow of air and which consists of horizontal slats in the lower part of the walls. Badghir means 'wind trap' ...
 See also: House, Door, Ground, Floor, System
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