| 单词 | herringbone balk |
| 释义 | > as lemmasherringbone balk b. Architecture. Applied to a kind of masonry and of paving in which the stones or tiles are set obliquely in alternate rows so as to form a zigzag pattern: as herringbone ashlar, herringbone balk, herringbone bond, herringbone work, etc. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > disposition of stones or bricks > [adjective] > specific dispositions herringbone1700 random1703 brick-on-edge1750 Cyclopean1822 uncoursed1825 long and short1835 inbond1842 throughband1844 isodomous1850 coursed1851 brick veneer1881 out-bond1882 joint-bedded1883 snecked1883 rat-trap bond1932 coigned- society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > paving and road-building > [adjective] > paved > in specific way pitched1611 herringbone1700 crazy1923 1700 Moxon's Mech. Exercises: Bricklayers-wks. 2 They make a good Pavement, and..[it] looks handsomly, especially if laid Herring-bone fashion. 1845 J. H. Parker Gloss. Terms Archit. (ed. 4) 199 The interior, or backing, of Roman walls is often of irregular herring-bone work. 1848 J. H. Parker Rickman's Styles Archit. Eng. (ed. 5) App. 36 Rude and wide jointed rag-work, with some herring-bone. 1853 Archaeologia 35 384 The walls to this room were 3 feet thick, with herring-bone masonry. 1865 J. Lubbock Prehist. Times iv. 112 Incised patterns in which the chevron or herring-bone constantly recurs. < as lemmas |
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