Cornice

Cornice

The name given to an overhanging lip of snow on a windblown ridge.

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cornice

History; Medieval

horizontal projection at the top of a wall.

cornice

Building materials; Lumber

The projection from a building that crowns or finishes the edge. Horizontal projection at the top of exterior wall which finishes the eaves of a building.

cornice

Education; SAT vocabulary

An ornamental molding running round the walls of a room close to the ceiling.

cornice

Architecture; General architecture

A molding or ornamentation that projects from the top of a building.

cornice

Sports; Climbing

An overhanging edge of snow on a ridge.

cornice

Chronometry; Clock

Topmost molding of a clock case. The 833-W is a great example of a well-defined cornice.

Taipan Air

Sports; Snowboarding

This trick requires the snowboarder to reach with their front hand behind their front foot and grab the toe edge between the bindings. Then their front knee is bent so that it ...

Three-Sixty (360)

Sports; Snowboarding

Simply to rotate 360-degrees in the air and landing riding forward.

Canadian Bacon Air

Sports; Snowboarding

The snowboarders knees are bent a bit and using their rear hand they reach behind their rear leg and grab the toe edge between their legs and at the same time the rear leg is in a ...

FIS

Sports; Snowboarding

The Federation Internationale de Ski. This is the organization that governs skiing and snowboarding.

Five-Forty (540)

Sports; Snowboarding

When a snowboarder rotates 540 degrees, a circle and a half, in the air and then lands riding fakie.

Inverted 720 (720 McTwist)

Sports; Snowboarding

The snowboarder comes up to the wall riding forward, they then go airborne, rotating 720-degrees in a backside direction with a front flip. They land riding fakie.

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The excretory organs of arachnids, in spiders located opposite the coxae of the first and third legs, that collect wastes into a saccule and discharge ...