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A dictionary of the architecture and archaeology of the middle ages : including words used by ancient and modern authors in treating of architectural and other antiquities, also, biographical notices of ancient architects (1883)

Britton, John, 1771-1857, Le Keux, John, 1783-1846, Godwin, George, 1813-1888 · London : Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longmans, Paternoster Row; and the Author, Burton Street · leaf 217

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w. Dowels, pins of wood or iron, used at the edges ofboards in laying floors, to obviate the appearanceof nails on the surface. Floors thus constructedare called doivelled floors. [Loudons Architec-tural Magazine, vol. i., p. 319.] The word isprobably a corruption of dove-tail. Drawbridge, a… … S.Kmynrr.Dol. J.L» K-iutSe. DOOR -AVAYS.l.Hi^^aan Ferrers Chu: North? 2.Chapter Ho\»se. LicbfKAthl S.I.ichfield C&xh^. \lesl End. 4.York C&jhi W. Knd. Zc-nJir/t. AAcuAm: Mar /. f£3/. EAS] ARCHITECTCUAL DICTIONARY. 117 Modern drawbridges to locks and docks areusually made to open and shut…

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