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Title: An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Gwilt, Joseph, 1784-1863 Papworth, Wyatt Angelicus Van Sandau, 1822-1894
Subjects: Architecture Architects
Publisher: London Longmans, Green
Contributing Library: Architecture Landscape Design - University of Toronto
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et. A slight piece of timber of a triangular section, used in raising the slatesagainst chimney shafts, or against a wall that cuts obliquely across the roof, and informing gutters at the upper ends and sides of those kinds of skylights of which theplanes coincide with those of the roof. When the arris fillet is used to raise the slates,at the eaves of a building, it is then called the caves board, caves lath, or eaves catch. Arris Gutter. A wooden gutter of this Vform fixed to the oaves of a building. Arsenal. A public establishment for the deposition of arms and warlike stores. Artificer. (Lat. Ars and Pacio.) A person who works with his hands in the manufactureof anything. He is a person of intellectual acquirements, independent of mere opera-tion by hand, which place him above the artisan, whose knowledge is limited to thegeneral rules of his trade. Artificial Stonr. A material produced by the use of cement and other substances, suchas Austins artificial stone, which is not burnt.
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GLOSSARY. 1215 AsAROTUM. In ancient architecture, a species of painted pavement used by the Roman?before the invention of Mosaic work. Ashlar or Ashler. (Ital. Asciare, to cliip.) Common or free-stones as brought from thequarry of diiferent lengths and thicknesses. Also the facing given to squared stones on the front of a building. When the work isBmootlied or rubbed so as to take out the marks of the tools by which the stones werecut, it is called ^j/rtm ashlar. Tooled ashlar is understood to be that of which the surfaceIS -wrought in a regular manner, like parallel flutes, and placed perpendicularly in the . building. But when the surfaces of tiie stones are cut with a broad tool without careor regularity, the -work is said to be random-tooled. When wrought with a narrow tool,it is Said to be chiselled or boasted, and when the surface is cut with a very narrow tool,the ashlar is said to he pointed. When the stones project from the joints, the ashlar issaid to be rusticked, in -which

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