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Base shoe
Construction; Architecture
The wooden strip (usually quarter round) along the bottom face of the baseboard at the floor level.
Riser
Construction; Architecture
The vertical portion of a step. The board covering the open space between stair treads.
Basilica
Construction; Architecture
The public hall that formed a gathering point in every Roman city, usually with a rectangular plan ending in as apse and divided by a double file of columns. It was the inspiration for the early ...
Roof run
Construction; Architecture
The horizontal distance from the outside of a bearing wall plate to the centre of the ridge rafter.
Roof span
Construction; Architecture
Equal to twice the roof run, or the horizontal distance between the outside faces of bearing wall plates.
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