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imber.Reveal. Jalousie.Riser. Jamb.Roll and fillet. Jib-door.Roof. Joggle-post.Rule. Joist.Run. Jut-window.Sarking. Key.Sash. King-post.Sash-frame. King-truss.Scaffold. Knee.Scaffold-bracket. Ladder.Scantling. Lagging.Scarf. Laminated-rib.Scraper. Landing.Scribe. Lath.Severy. Lathing-clamp.Shaker. Lattice.Shutter. Leaf.Shutting-post. Lean-to.Shear-legs. Ledge.Side-plane. Ledger.Shingle. Level.Shook. Line-winder.Shooting-board. Lining.Shore. Lintel.Side-plane. Listing.Sill. Luffer (Louvre).Sinking. Lumber.Skirting. Main-couple.Skylight. Mallet.Slab. Mansard-roof.Sleeper. Match-boarding.Soffit. Mitered border.Sound boarding. Molding.Span-roof. Mopboard.Splice. Mortise.Spring-beam. M-roof.Staging. Mud-sill.Staircase. Muntin.Stair. Needle-beam.Standard. Newel.Sticking. Nogging.Stile. Norma.Stirrup. Nosing.Stock. Notch-board.Story-post. Notching.Story-rod. Pale.Straining-beam. Panel.Straining-sill. Partition.Strap. Pitch.Striking-plate. Pit
ment.Profile. Detached works.Ramp. Ditch.Rampart. Écoute.Ravelin. Elevated battery.Redan. Embrasure.Redoubt. Enciente.Re-entering-angle. Envelope.Relief. Epaule.Remblai. Epaulement.Retired flank. Escarp.Retrenchment. Esplanade.Revetment. Estacade.Revolving-tower. Exterior slope.Ridge. Face.Rifle-pit. Fascine.Rimer. Fausse-braye.Salient-angle. Field-work.Sally-port. Flank.Sand-bag. Fleche.Sap. Fort.Sap-roller. Fortalice.Saucisse. Fortress.Scarp. Fosse.Shoulder. Fougasse.Sill. Fraise.Sillon. Front.Slope. Gabion.Sole. Gallery.Spur. Glacis.Star-fort. Gorge.Stockade. Half-moon.Sunken battery. Half-sunken battery.Superior slope. Herrison.Swallow-tail. Herse.Tenailles. Hersillon.Tenaillon. Horn-work.Terre-plein. Hurdle.Tete de pont. Hurter.Tower. Indented line.Trace. Indented parapet.Traverse. Interior slope.Traversing-platform. Trench.Turret. Trench-cart.Van-fosse. Trench cavalier.Zigzag. Trous de loup. For′tress. A large permanent f
dations; upwards of 8,000 piles, varying from 25 to 40 feet in length, having been employed in the work, which is stated to have cost $2,000,000. It is built of granite, and is furnished with iron gates and an iron caisson or floating gate. Other larger ones are now constructed at South Brooklyn. Many of the Liverpool docks have graving-docks, and some of the dock-entrances are arranged to be used as graving-docks. Two of the latter have the following dimensions: — Depth of Water at Sill. Feet. Length.Width. Canada dock-lock50010026 Huskisson dock-lock3968024.75 Birkenhead dock-lock5008530.25 16 graving-docks of Liverpool300-70040-7018-21 3 Birkenhead graving-docks75050-7025.75 10 private graving-docks, Birkenhead380-4080-8719.25-24 Grav′i-ty-bat′ter-y. Invented by Callaud or by C. F. Varley, London; English patent, December 5, 1854, no. 2555. A form of double-fluid battery, in which the fluids range themselves at different hights in a single jar by virtue of <
ch. Coal-boring bit.Hogger-pipe. Coal-breaker.Holing. Coal-cutting machine.Horns Coal-mining machine.Hushing. Coal-screen.Hutch. Coal-washing machine.Jamb. Coffering.Jinny-road. Coffin.Jump. Corbond. Corf. Costeening. Counter. Course. Cow. Cradle. Creaze. Creep. Cribbing. Cribble. Crop. Cross-course. Cross-cut. Cross-lode. Crow-bar. Cutting. Dan. Day-level. Jumper.Shambles. Keeve.Shearing. Kibble.Sheers. Knock-stone.Shift. Launders.Shoad. Lead.Shot. Leader.Sill. Leap.Skip. Ledge.Skip shaft. Ledger.Slicking. Level.Slimes. Lode.Slip. Lorry.Slope. Madrier.Smift. Maundril.Snoft. Measure.Sole. Meir.Sollar. Mine.Sough. Miner's lamp.Spalling. Miner's hammer.Spawl. Miner's pick.Spend. Miner's shovel.Spire. Miner's wedge.Squat. Mining-machine.Stall. Mining-pump.Stannary. Mining-tools.Stemples. Monton.Stone-channeling machine. Mother-gate.Stone-quarrying machine. Nicking-trunk.Stope. Nip.Stopping. Nitro-glycerine.Strake. Nog.Stream-wo
od; g, for hard wood; h, inside parting-tool for removing rings from the interior of solid works, avoiding loss of material in shavings; it is also useful in some other under-cut works. 3. (Carving.) An angular gouge like a hollow graver, used for marking outlines, tendrils, stems, and markings of leaves, etc. 4. (Joinery.) A chisel with a bent edge. Parting-tools. Par-tition. (Carpentry.) A division between rooms, etc. The scantling in a partition is as follows: — Sill, the bottom-piece. Head, the upper plate. Principal posts, the main uprights. Quarters, the intermediate studding. Braces, oblique ties. Part′ner. (Nautical.) A framework or bushing in or around a hole in a deck to receive the heel of a mast, bitt, or pump, or to form a basis for the pawls of a capstan. The framework consists of fore-and-aft partners, cross-partners, and corner-chocks. Par′ty-gold. (Metallurgy.) Beaten or leaf silver with a coating of gold
nce to the center of rotation, and is then wound upon a bobbin. Silk-worm gut. A fine cord for angling, made of the silk-gut of the worm. Fine worms about to begin spinning, being selected, are killed by immersing in vinegar. After steeping for about twelve hours, a worm is removed and pulled apart, exposing two transparent yellowishgreen cords. These are stretched to the required extent, and fastened in the elongated condition on a board to dry. Fay's sill-dressing machine. Sill. 1. (Carpentry.) The lower timber in a wooden structure, — in a building, a loom, a bridge, a door or window frame, etc., etc. Nearly synonymous with sole; but the latter refers more specially to moving objects, such as a plow, a shoe, a sled, etc. Sometimes called ground-sill. 2. (Fortification.) The inner edge of the bottom or sole of an embrasure. 3. (Mining.) The floor of a gallery or passage in a mine. Sill-dress′ing ma-chine′. A special kind of wood-planing machi<