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Summer :: Summer (n.) A large stone or beam placed horizontally on columns, piers, posts, or the like, serving for various uses. Specifically: (a) The lintel of a door or window. (b) The commencement of a cross vault. (c) A central floor timber, as a girder, or a piece reaching from a wall to a girder. Called also summertree..

Vaulting :: Vaulting (n.) The act of constructing vaults; a vaulted construction.

Tomb :: Tomb (n.) A house or vault, formed wholly or partly in the earth, with walls and a roof, for the reception of the dead..

Springer :: Springer (n.) The rib of a groined vault, as being the solid abutment for each section of vaulting..

Pendentive :: Pendentive (n.) The part of a groined vault which is supported by, and springs from, one pier or corbel..

Concameration :: Concameration (n.) An arch or vault.

Cell :: Cell (n.) The space between the ribs of a vaulted roof.

Vaut :: Vaut (n.) A vault; a leap.

Fornix :: Fornix (n.) An arch or fold; as, the fornix, or vault, of the cranium; the fornix, or reflection, of the conjuctiva..

Concave :: Concave (a.) Hollow and curved or rounded; vaulted; -- said of the interior of a curved surface or line, as of the curve of the of the inner surface of an eggshell, in opposition to convex; as, a concave mirror; the concave arch of the sky..

Drift :: Drift (n.) The horizontal thrust or pressure of an arch or vault upon the abutments.

Cradle :: Cradle (n.) The ribbing for vaulted ceilings and arches intended to be covered with plaster.

Echometry :: Echometry (n.) The art of constructing vaults to produce echoes.

Cross-springer :: Cross-springer (n.) One of the ribs in a groined arch, springing from the corners in a diagonal direction. [See Illustr. of Groined vault.].

Carnary :: Carnary (n.) A vault or crypt in connection with a church, used as a repository for human bones disintered from their original burial places; a charnel house..

Vaulted :: Vaulted (imp. & p. p.) of Vaul.

Lunette :: Lunette (n.) Any surface of semicircular or segmental form; especially, the piece of wall between the curves of a vault and its springing line..

Groin :: Groin (n.) The projecting solid angle formed by the meeting of two vaults, growing more obtuse as it approaches the summit..

Groined :: Groined (a.) Built with groins; as, a groined ceiling; a groined vault..

Imbow :: Imbow (v. t.) To make like a bow; to curve; to arch; to vault; to embow.

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