Cyclopedia of architecture, carpentry, and building : a general reference work (1912)
American Technical Society · Chicago : American Technical Society · leaf 119
e—A horizontal course of stone extending around oneor more faces of a building; it is usually composed of larger stoneswhich sometimes project slightly, and is usually employed only forarchitectural effect. Bonding—A system of arranging the stones so that they aremutually tied together by the… … Fig. 23. Cavil. V Fig. 23. Buttress. Fig. 34. Chisel. plane, is smoothed still more with a hush-hmnmer (see Fig. 21). Theface of the bush-hammer has a large number of small pyramidalpoints, which, in skilful hands, speedily reduce the surface to a uni-formly granular condition. Buttress—A very…
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