| A blacksmiths tool used to handle hot metals.
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| A pointed arch, with a joint at the apex rather than a keystone.
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| An architectural style of Western Europe of the 12-16th centuries featuring pointed arches, vertical piers, buttresses, and vaults.
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| 1. A chisel with a concave blade. 2. To overcharge.
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| Metal or plastic bar attached to a bathroom wall, above a bathtub, near a toilet, or in a shower, to be used as a hand hold. See Flash Set.
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| A long, narrow trough bounded by one or more parallel normal faults; also called a Rift Valley.
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| A metric unit of circular measurement; 400 grads equals a full circle equals 360 degrees.
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| A hydraulic, wheel-mounted backhoe often used with a wide bucket for dressing earth slopes.
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| The sizing of granular materials. for concrete materials, usually expressed in terms of cumulative percentages larger or smaller than each of a series of sieve openings or the percentages between certain ranges of sieve openings.
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| The system of support for freshly poured or placed concrete in a reinforced grade beam.
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| The placing of metal or steel bars in a concrete grade beam.
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| A reinforced concrete beam that transmits the load from a bearing wall into spaced foundations such as pile caps or caissons.
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| The stamp on lumber indicating its grade according to the rules of the lumber grading bureau that performed the inspection.
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| A grade of brick intended to be used for exterior wall surfaces where water permeability is not expected and only slight frost action; MW means moderate weather.
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| A grade of brick intended to be used for back up withes or interior exposure; NW means no weather.
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| A stake indicating the amount of cut or fill required to bring the ground to a specified level.
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| A grade of brick intended to be used for exterior wall surfaces and where water permeability and frost action may be expected; SW means severe weather.
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| 1. The classification of lumber in regard to strength and utility in accordance with the rules of an approved lumber grading agency. 2. A gradient. 3. A predetermined degree of slope that a finished floor or ramped surface should have. 4. The horizontal ground level of a building or structure. 5. To level off to a smooth horizontal or sloping surface. 6. The slope or pitch, known as the fall, usually expressed in drainage piping as a fraction of an inch per foot. 7. The elevation of a real or planned surface or structure.
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| A mixture of sand in which the granules consist of fine, medium, and coarse sizes.
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| 1. A stretch of road or railway that slopes from the horizontal. 2. The amount of such a slope. 3. The rate of rise or fall of temperature or pressure in passing from one region to another.
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| see Grade.
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| A geophysical instrument that measures the vertical component of the earths magnetic field; a very sensitive instrument, it can detect minor variations due to buried features.
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| Ethyl alcohol made from grain by distillation.
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| Causing short fibers on surface of bare wood to stand up by applying water; liquids that do not raise the grain are known as non-grain-raising.
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| 1. The direction, size, arrangement, appearance, or quality of the fibers in wood or lumber. 2. The weight unit equal to 1/7000 pound; used in measuring atmospheric moisture content.
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| simulating the grain of wood by using paint.
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| Roughness of a protective film resembling grains of sand.
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| see Calorie, 1.
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| A metric unit of mass and weight equal to 1/1000 of a kilogram and nearly equal to one cubic centimeter of water at its maximum density.
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| A key that operates locks in several groups, each of which has its own master key.
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