Appletons' cyclopaedia of applied mechanics: a dictionary of mechanical engineering and the mechanical arts (1880)
D. Appleton and Company, Benjamin, Park, 1849-1922 · New York, D. Appleton · leaf 474
its dimensions being governed by the templet, which in sweeping about its axis should leave a smallspace between itself and the bricks to allow of finishing with loam. The bricks are laid up in loam,and the same material is laid upon the surface until it has sufficient thickness to be scraped off…
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