A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive (1902)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 496
ant use inflooring, and is used occasionally in thesilling of houses. Tongued and groovedflooring is objected to by some because,when heavy pressure comes at a pointnear the edge of a plank, one side of the groovemay break away and the floor be permanentlyinjured ; in this way, in the United… … ToMIi, FlO. 20, SiKNA C.ITHEDKAL, 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 stiffness. Kiley, BuUdiny Constntction.
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