释义 |
flanching, vbl. n. Also flaunching. [See flanch v.] a. The action or state of spreading outwards. b. The sloping fillet of cement or mortar in which the base of a chimney-pot is bedded. Also called flanched work.
1802Gentl. Mag. Apr. 325/1 The boat is about 30 feet long..built in a flaunching manner. 1803Naval Chron. IX. 283 The flaunching, or spreading form of the boat..gives her a considerable bearing. 1833Loudon Encycl. Archit. §234 Sections of the flanchings. 1904Goodchild & Tweney Technol. & Sci. Dict. 226/2 Flaunching or flaunc[h]ed work, the cement fillet round the bed of a chimney pot. |