单词 | quarter partition |
释义 | > as lemmasquarter partition quarter partition n. Building a partition or dividing wall whose framework is made of ‘quarters’ (sense 19). ΚΠ 1762 Act vesting Certain Estates St. Botolph, Billingsgate 7 Carpenters work..to divide the Stair Case from the Warehouse by a Quarter Partition. 1823 P. Nicholson New Pract. Builder 363 Proprietors of houses and grounds must..give three months' notice to pull down old party-walls, party-arches, party fence-walls, or quarter partitions. 1842 J. Gwilt Encycl. Archit. ii. iii. 543 The scantlings of the timbers of a quarter partition should vary according to the extent of bearing. 1867 Times 25 Jan. 12/3 (advt.) The remaining portion of the old Farringdon-Street station; comprising the timber roof, quarter partitions, upright timbers, external lining boards. 1996 W. Bucher Dict. Building Preserv. 365 Quarter partition, A stud wall. < as lemmas |
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