† whelmern.
Architecture. Obsolete.
? A stone placed horizontally. (But cf. wheeler n. 10.)
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > other elements > [noun] > whelmer
whelmer1618
1618 in R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. (1886) I. 207 Doresteds with..whitestone heads with whelmers and kneelers over the same of free stone.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 472/2 A Wall whose Door head, Cap, or Cover is called a Square, or a Cover of Whelmers and Kneelers.
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