A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 489
se inflooring, and is userl occasionally in thesiding of houses. Tongued and groovedflooring is objected to by some because,when heavy pressure conies at a pointnear the edge of a plank, one side of the groovemay break away and the floor be jiermanentlyinjiu-eil ; in this way, in the Uniteil… … Tomb, Fig. 20, Sikna Cathedral, c. 1483. of the piece upon which the tenon is worked,and these strips fit into slots cut on either sideof the mortise in the other piece, thus givinggreat additional stifthess. Kiley, Building Construction.
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