A concise glossary of terms used in Grecian, Roman, Italian, and Gothic architecture (1905)
Parker, John Henry, · J. Parker and Co., · leaf 264
subsequently to their firsterection. Sill, Cill, or Sole (Fr. Seuil, from Lat. Solum). (1.) Thehorizontal piece oftimber or stone form-ing the bottom of awindow, doorway, orother similar open-ing. (2.) Also thehorizontal piece oftimber, or plate, atthe bottom of awooden partition. (3.) Also the… … Sfuto—Solar. 257 II A Skew, Askew-table; the term skew m still used in thenorth for a stone built intothe bottom of a gable or othe rsimilar situations to supportthe coping above (a) ; it ap-pears! formerly to have beenapplied to the stones formingthe slopes of the set-offs ofbuttresses and other…
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