A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 298
ructural sujiports being reduced to a mini-numi, so as to give the greatest possible spacefor disjilay of goods. SHORE. A piece of timber to support awall, usually set in a diagonal or oliliiiue posi-tion, to hold the wall in place while the underpart of it is taken out for repairs, or for… … Fig. 1. Under this head will be included the processof raising buildings, and the process of movingbuildings from place to place. The ordinary method by which buildings areshored is shown in Fig. 1, which is a crosssection of a wall held by needles through themedium of jack screws resting upon…
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