A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive (1902)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 355
bnn, which means spindle-shaped, implies aform larger in the middle and approaching a pointat each end ; but the word spindle is appliedmore loosely, as to the small pieces of turnedwood which make up the grating of the Rleshre-beeyeh, and equally to the turned jjart of a post,baluster, or other…
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