| 单词 | spring stone |
| 释义 | > as lemmasspring stone a. The point at which an arch or vault rises from a support or impost (impost n.2 1); the commencement of curvature in an arch. Also attributive, esp. in spring stone. Cf. springer n.1 2, spring v.1 17b. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > arch > [noun] > parts of coin1350 pendant1359 voussoir1359 springer1435 spandrel1477 spring?1553 pitch1615 kneeler1617 gimmalsa1652 face1664 of the third point1672 turn1677 sweep1685 hance1700 skew-back1700 summering1700 springing1703 tympan1704 hip1726 reins1726 rib1726 third point1728 quoin1730 archivolt1731 opening1739 soffit1739 shoulder1744 extrados1772 intrados1772 haunch1793 arch-stone1828 twist1840 coign1843 architrave1849 escoinçon1867 pulvino1907 pin1928 ?1553 (c1501) G. Douglas Palice of Honour (London) 92 in Shorter Poems (1967) l. 1437 Suttyl muldry wrocht..On buttres, Ialmys, pilleris, and plesand spryngis. 1723 E. Chambers tr. S. Le Clerc Treat. Archit. I. 102 Coach-Gates..have a Dormant (i.e. the upper part of the Gate that does not open), which Dormant, where the Gate is arch'd, commences from the Spring of the Arch. 1735 J. Price Some Considerations Stone-bridge Thames 4 The Piers,..under the Chaptrel, or Spring Stones, have a Square Course. 1772 C. Hutton Princ. Bridges 63 When the arch stones only are laid, and the pier built no higher than the spring. 1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 539 The supports of an arch are called the spring walls. 1871 Brit. Q. Rev. Jan. 46/1 The spring stones of an arch discovered by Robinson in the western wall. 1875 C. Merivale Gen. Hist. Rome lxxix. 670 There remain on the face of the Palatine some indications of what may have been the spring of the first arch. 1917 Proc. Royal Irish Acad. 1916–7 C. 33 128 The wrong spring-stone was put into the inner order of the doorway on the south side. 2000 N.Y. Times 19 Mar. (Real Estate section) 7/1 An unnamed critic..didn't like the placement of the mezzanine floor at the midpoint of the columns rather than at the spring of the arches. < as lemmas |
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