springing line
nounArchitecture.
a horizontal line between the springs of an arch or dome.
the rise or the angle of the rise of an arch.
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How to use springing line in a sentence
Their arches are richly moulded and acutely pointed, the springing-line being rather low down.
Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ripon | Cecil Walter Charles HallettThe length of the longest bridge is 3,000 feet and the span of the arches at the springing line is fifty-six feet.
History of Sanitation | John Joseph CosgroveThese joints in the arch were not allowed to be made above a point 60 above the springing line.
To distribute the skip cars along the work a trestle was built close alongside the bridge and at about springing line level.
Concrete Construction | Halbert P. Gillette
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