| satisfaction, or partial satisfaction, of a debt.
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| The record of wages, salaries, and fringe benefits paid by an employer to its employees.
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| 1. Portland cement. 2. Prime coat. 3. Pull chain.
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| Portland Cement Association.
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| Polychlorinated Biphenyl.
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| Portland Cement Concrete.
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| Pounds per Cubic Foot.
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| 1. Pounds per Cubic Inch. 2. Prestressed Concrete Institute.
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| Plumbing and Drainage Institute.
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| Professional Engineer.
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| That portion of concrete aggregate passing the 3/8 sieve and retained on a No. 4 sieve.
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| The top point of a roof, truss, spire, finial or any other similar structure.
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| Lacquer into which has been suspended guanine crystals, multi-faceted crystals found in skin attached to scales of sardine herring that thrive in cold water.
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| sphagnum.
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| see Humus.
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| A lumber workers tool for handling logs, consisting of a stout wood handle with a steel hooked lever at one end.
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| A thin layer of hardwood glued over a core of sturdier less valuable solid wood, or plywood, used in flooring and furniture.
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| Pockets or areas of disintegrated wood caused by advanced stages of localized decay in the living tree; usually associated with cypress and incense-ceda; there is no further development of peck once the lumber is seasoned.
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| The doctrine that an owner, by employing an independent contractor, cannot escape liability to persons who may be injured during construction operations on the owners property, since the construction operations involve a special risk of harm.
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| Consisting of or measured in money.
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| A flooring system which has short piers or legs used as a base and the flooring laid over those piers to provide a floor system; special flooring designed to prevent electrostatic buildup and sparking in a computer room; usually elevated over the existing floor to facilitate the installation of wires between the components in the room.
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| 1.An upright compression member whose height does not exceed three times its average least lateral dimension. 2. A short compression member of reinforced concrete that is placed between a column and the footing to distribute the load to the footing. 3. A support for a column or statue.
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| An obstruction, obstacle, or barrier set up to check or control crowds of people and foot traffic.
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| A structure erected over or under an obstacle such as a freeway, roadway, street, railroad, or stream, and intended primarily for pedestrian use.
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| A sloping path of travel intended for pedestrian traffic and as differentiated from a curb ramp.
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| Normally 13 square feet are required per person for comfortable motion while walking.
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| A route by which a pedestrian may pass.
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| A person on foot.
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| The triangular front part of a building, surmounting the columns, of a classical Grecian style.
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| To convert a wood log into veneer by rotary cutting.
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