corbelling
Britishnoun
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The church, which dates from the fifteenth century, is a most beautiful brown brick building with delicate corbelling under the eaves.
From A Wanderer in Venice by Morley, Harry
The chamber is circular, and roofed partly by corbelling and partly by a large slab.
From Rough Stone Monuments and Their Builders by Peet, T. Eric (Thomas Eric)
The chambers are built of upright slabs and are roofed by corbelling.
From Rough Stone Monuments and Their Builders by Peet, T. Eric (Thomas Eric)
The walls in one case stood high enough to show, from the corbelling of their upper courses, that the huts were roofed in the same fashion as the nuraghi themselves.
From Rough Stone Monuments and Their Builders by Peet, T. Eric (Thomas Eric)
The so-called “bee-hive” cell, which goes back to pre-Christian times, was built of rough stone rubble without mortar, and roofed in the same manner by corbelling over the courses of masonry.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 4 "Aram, Eugene" to "Arcueil" by Various
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