The carpenter and joiner's assistant : being a comprehensive treatise on the selection, preparation, and strength of materials, and the mechanical principles of framing, with their application in carpentry, joinery, and hand-railing : also, a course of instruction in practical geometry, geometrical lines, drawing, projection, and perspective : and an illustrated glossary of terms used in architecture and building (1860)
Newlands, James, 1813-1871 · Glasgow : Blackie and Son · leaf 498
a coping to a wall formed of a course of bricks set on edge. BAULK. — A piece of whole timber, being the vertical section being a curve of contrary flexure. BASE. — The bottom of anything, considered as Plate XXXV? Fig. 1, No. 1. squared trunk of any of the trees usually employed its support or… … upon, and on the direction of its fibres. Mr. Holt- space for depositing Cabinetmaker’s Bench. zapfell classifies cutting tools in the three following straw or hay ; or the groups: — 1st. Paring tools, with their edges the space between the thrashing-floor and the end of the joiners, cabinetmakers,…
