| 单词 | wreath line | 
| 释义 | > as lemmaswreath line  b.   Architecture and Joinery. As a modifier, with the sense ‘designating a curved section of the handrail or stringboard of a staircase; of or relating to such a part’, as in  wreath line,  wreath part,  wreath piece,  wreath rail, etc. Cf. sense  10. ΚΠ 1781    W. Pain Estimate Prices 30 in  Builder's Golden Rule  				Circular string-board, glued up, to answer the wreath-rail. 1825    ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 597  				Draw a line, which will give the wreath line formed by the nosings of the winders. 1825    ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 597  				In preparing the string for the wreath part, a cylinder should be made. 1877    Builder 27 Oct. 1082/2  				I make m m' equal to the height of all the risers to be covered by the wreath-piece. 1894    J. H. Monckton Stair-building 		(ed. 4)	 Pref.  				The geometry of this unfoldment we have published before in unfolding a central wreath-line for finding lengths of balusters, etc. 1914    M. Williams Stair Builders' Guide vi. 72  				The wreath part of the scroll as shown in plan Fig. 125 is merely a quadrant curve, the drawing of the face mold for which is the simplest of all in the realm of wreath construction. 1958    Wood-worker Mar. 20/3  				This gives you the size of the piece of wood you need to build up for the wreath rail. 1977    C. M. Harris Hist. Archit. Sourcebk. 576/1  				Wreath piece, a curved section of a stair string. < as lemmas | 
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