Handbook of Technical Terms Used in Architecture And Building And Their Allied Trades And Subjects
Handbook of Technical Terms Used in Architecture And Building And Their Allied Trades And Subjects
Passmore, Augustine C
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The upright glass tube or chimney for a lamp. Lamp Hole. A small bore pipe rising from a sewer to surface, down which a lamp may be lowered, that its light may be seen from manholes some distance off. Lampion. A small lamp. Lamplighter. One employed to light the public lamps. Lana. a close-grained wood ex- ported from Demarara. Lancet. A high and narrow window pointed like a lancet. Lancet Arch. That in which the rise above the springing is greater in proportion to the width ; therefore the rad...ius for the curves is greater than the width of opening ; a narrow-pointed Gothic arch. Lancet Window. A high, nar- row window with a very pointed arch. Lance Wood (Diiguetio quitaren- sis). A tough, elastic wood of a paler colour than boxwood, imported in long poles from three to six inches in diameter from Cuba and Jamaica ; used for shafts, surveyors' rods; etc. Land. Ground ; soil ; real estate ; a country or district. Land Agent. One who manages I r^'^^d for the proprietor T '^DED. Labyrin .„ Having an estate in m which the"r*^T °^„!;!tL?>^ water are ^' In staircasing, are ^^^ form resting places metallic portions ^j^^^^ ^^ ^^^ ^j ^^j^j^ is the termination of the staircase.
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