单词 | respond shaft |
释义 | > as lemmasrespond shaft respond shaft n. Architecture a shaft (shaft n.2 5a) attached to a wall to support an arch. ΚΠ 1848 B. Webb Sketches Continental Ecclesiol. x. 470 Along the outer walls is a stone seat, on which are stilted the respond-shafts of the vaulting. 1886 R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. II. 119 The respond-shafts and wall-ribs still adhere..to the sides of that noble quadrangle. 1994 Art Bull. 76 26/2 The insertion was made in order not to ignore the first respond shaft east of the crossing. < as lemmas |
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