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Excubitorium :: Excubitorium (n.) A gallery in a church, where persons watched all night..

Oriel :: Oriel (n.) A gallery for minstrels.

Gallery :: Gallery (a.) Any communication which is covered overhead as well as at the sides. When prepared for defense, it is a defensive gallery..

Auget :: Auget (n.) A priming tube connecting the charge chamber with the gallery, or place where the slow match is applied..

Subworker :: Subway (n.) An underground way or gallery; especially, a passage under a street, in which water mains, gas mains, telegraph wires, etc., are conducted..

Jube :: "Jube (n.) gallery above such a screen, from which certain parts of the service were formerly read..

Traverse :: Traverse (a.) A gallery or loft of communication from side to side of a church or other large building.

Atrium :: Atrium (n.) An open court with a porch or gallery around three or more sides; especially at the entrance of a basilica or other church. The name was extended in the Middle Ages to the open churchyard or cemetery.

Trapper :: Trapper (n.) A boy who opens and shuts a trapdoor in a gallery or level.

Machicolation :: Machicolation (n.) An opening between the corbels which support a projecting parapet, or in the floor of a gallery or the roof of a portal, shooting or dropping missiles upen assailants attacking the base of the walls. Also, the construction of such defenses, in general, when of this character. See Illusts. of Battlement and Castle..

Triforium :: Triforium (n.) The gallery or open space between the vaulting and the roof of the aisles of a church, often forming a rich arcade in the interior of the church, above the nave arches and below the clearstory windows..

Gallery :: Gallery (a.) A room for the exhibition of works of art; as, a picture gallery; hence, also, a large or important collection of paintings, sculptures, etc..

Thrust :: Thrust (n.) The breaking down of the roof of a gallery under its superincumbent weight.

Ambulatory :: Ambulatory (n.) A place to walk in, whether in the open air, as the gallery of a cloister, or within a building..

Creep :: Creep (n.) A slow rising of the floor of a gallery, occasioned by the pressure of incumbent strata upon the pillars or sides; a gradual movement of mining ground..

Rib :: Rib (n.) Solid coal on the side of a gallery; solid ore in a vein.

Pinacotheca :: Pinacotheca (n.) A picture gallery.

Loft :: Loft (n.) A gallery or raised apartment in a church, hall, etc.; as, an organ loft..

Heading :: Heading (n.) A gallery, drift, or adit in a mine; also, the end of a drift or gallery; the vein above a drift..

Stulp :: Stulm (n.) A shaft or gallery to drain a mine.

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