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arrisn. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French areste. Etymology: < Middle French areste (1260 in Old French in this sense; French arête ), specific semantic development of areste ear of corn (12th cent.: see arête n.1), with elision of the final t in English.The β. forms reflect assibilation and (in most cases) voicing. Chiefly Architecture, Building, and Joinery. the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > edge, border, or margin > [noun] > formed by meeting of two surfaces 1437 in L. F. Salzman (1992) App. B. 510 The wynges on either side..sufficiently made and imade araswise. 1677 R. Plot 75 Burford-stone..carries by much a finer Arris than that at Heddington. 1791 J. Smeaton §11 It can by no means be brought to an Arriss or sharp corner. 1855 F. K. Robinson 5 Arridges, the edges of a piece of squared stone or wood. a1878 G. G. Scott (1879) I. 150 A wonderfully studious grouping of the hollows, rounds, and arrises. 1952 E. L. Leeming (ed. 3) xvii. 190 The kerb face should be tooled, in the case of natural stone, to the slope of the footpath; the edge, or arris, is often chamfered. 2015 119 153/1 The center of the flute, and not the arris, was in line with the longitudinal axis of the colonnade. Compounds 1805 109 Harris-cut, this term is applied when the edges of planks are cut to an under bevelling to fay one on another, as the berthing or sides of the well, so that no ballast may get in at the joints. 1866 i. 12 An arris-cut longitudinal stringer..as introduced on the Great Western Railway. 1916 May 56/1 The Arris Cut System of Handrailing. 1840 App. 1 171 Fix scribed arris fillets to the underside of the tie-beam and upon the floor, to form grooves; and between the fillets on the floor fix an iron plate. 1842 J. Gwilt Gloss. 926 Arris Fillet, a slight piece of timber of a triangular section, used in raising the slates against chimney shafts, or against a wall that cuts obliquely across the roof. 1974 43 147 Some pieces of the columns preserve part of their delicate arris-fillets and their polished flutings, with no traces of weathering. 2004 H. F. Mallgrave & M. Robinson tr. G. Semper viii. 655 The first protection against warping wood is so-called arris fillets. 1778 (Soc. Master Carpenters) 9 (table) Whole deal arris, or fillet Gutters, pitch'd. 1828 W. Laxton (ed. 3) 176 Arris gutters. 1881 F. Young i. iii. 62 The gutter some times used to catch the drips from a roof..is called an arris gutter. It is formed by nailing one narrow slip of board along the edge of a somewhat narrower slip. society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > spar > [noun] > mast > mast made of several pieces > parts of 1717 W. Sutherland 65 I pass on now to the Cant-wise Pieces, or, as Shipwrights term them, Arras Pieces. 1836 W. N. Glascock I. 210 It is common to take off the cheeks, drive the body-hoops off, and take out the aris pieces. 1884 918 Longitudinally along the centre of the upper face of the longitudinal balk or plank forming the longitudinal sleeper,..is placed an ‘arris piece’ of hard timber of triangular section. 1932 May 55/3 To provide for expansion cracks, weak places were formed in the wall, 100 ft. apart, by planting 1 in. by 1 in. arris pieces on to the shuttering. 1967 (new ed.) II. ix. 319 If the ship-side plating is not flush with the lip of the hawsepipe, an arris piece is fitted to prevent the anchor flukes from jamming under the protruding lip. 2014 W. L. Crothers 173 Aris Pieces, long, thin strips of wood which are added to the width of fishes when the fishes do not completely fill the diameter of a mast. 1677 J. Worlidge i. ii. 28 Each pale in the Pallisade is now set edge-wise, the upper Rail running through each pale, and the Foot cut with an Ox mouth, and set on an Arras Rail. 1796 4 295 Three traverse pieces of wood, exactly fitted to the trough; these ought to be of the form of the ariss rail in the inside of the trough. 1833 J. C. Loudon 438 The calf-pens to be parted off with oak posts and arris rails. 1962 23 Aug. 299/3 Even if you cannot treat all the timber [of the fence] in this way, you may at least be able to treat the ends of the arris rails. 2008 (Nexis) 14 Oct. 43 Repair any dodgy fence posts or arris rails. Derivatives the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > surface > [adverb] > with narrow surface uppermost 1688 R. Holme iii. iii. 100/2 Arras ways, is any thing set or hung Diamond wise, having one corner of the Square set upwards, the other downwards. 1700 3 An excellent Pavement and pleasing to the Eye, especially when laid Arris ways. 1796 66 17 Part of an old monument formed ariss-ways. 1852 E. Lomax & T. Gunyon I. 31/2 The palisade bars to be 1 3/4 inch square, placed arris-ways. 1960 J. Franklyn vi. 222 If the book is arrasways the clasps are still visible because the spine of the book is to the rear. 1993 J. S. Curl 28/1 Diagonal laying of bricks, slates, or tiles, or sawing of timber diagonally, is referred to as arris-wise or arris-ways. the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > surface > [adverb] > with narrow surface uppermost 1437 in L. F. Salzman (1992) App. B. 510 The wynges on either side..sufficiently made and imade araswise. 1827 Specif. Stone Bridge over River Dee, Chester in (1843) II. Suppl. p. vi Sawed and wrought oak posts 5½ by 6 inches square, and 8 feet asunder, with two heights of sawed wrought red deal rails.., to be fixed arris-wise. 1846 I. 127 The palisades are 6″ x 6″ scantling cut arris-wise, and 4″ apart. 1910 Jan. 47/2 Stretchers set arriswise, with vertical hollow edgings. 1949 Sept. 66/2 Timber..sawn into a triangular section, is said to be cut ‘arris wise’. 2007 L. Steinberg in A. Baldassari 93 (margin) In the language of heraldry, a cube placed catercorner is said to be set arris-wise. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). <  n.1437 |
