A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive (1902)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 303
estructural sujjports being reduced to a mini-mum, 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 oblique posi-tion, to hold the wall in place while the underpart of it is taken out for repairs, or for… … 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. I, which is a crosssection of a wall held by needles througii themedium of jack screws resting upon tempo-rary…
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