A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 394
ccssiv-e courses of maso:irj- beyondthose lielow. (Iciierally, to corbel out. CORBEL ARCH. A span of stoneworkconstnieted by regidarly advancing successivecourses, till the top ones nearly meet, when along capstone is laid a(ross to complete thework. This was the nearest approach to thetrue arch… … Corbel : Lincoln C.vthkdral. only other arch iLsed in America \vas tiiat seen in the snow dome of the Eskimo. (See 075 CORBEL TABLE Iglugeak : .Mexico, .\rcliitectuvc of, Iart 1.;Trea.siiryof AtriMis.) (Tut, col. G77.) — F. S. D. CORBEL COURSE.In a masonry structurea course in which cor-bels are…
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