| 释义 |
▪ I. lierne Arch.|lɪˈɜːn|
Also 5 leyrn.
[ad. F. lierne (Delorme, 16th c.), of doubtful etym.]
In vaulting, a short rib which neither springs from an impost nor runs along the ridge, but connects the bosses and intersections of the principal ribs.
1842Willis in Trans. Instit. Brit. Architects I. ii. 31 The Liernes connect the ribs at other points [than the crowns] or may connect the crown of one rib with some intermediate point between the crown and springing of another rib. Ibid., The term Lierne is applied by De l'Orme ‘Inventions pour bien bastir’ to the short-ridge ribs which form a cross at the summit of the vault which he has given as an example. 1879Sir G. Scott Lect. Archit. II. 212 Liernes are not placed at right angles to the surface of the vaulting, but in a vertical plane. 1886F. Caddy Footsteps Jeanne D'Arc 226 The roof branched with liernes, clustering into stars in its vaulting.
b. attrib. in † lierne-stud, lierne-vault.
1466in Willis & Clark Cambridge (1886) III. 93 From euery beme a leyrn stood with .ij. braces into the beme and .ij. into the crownetree which shal lye vpon the said studdes. 1850Parker Gloss. Archit. s.v., Vaults in which such liernes are employed are termed lierne vaults. 1896W. B. Wildman Hist. Sherborne iv. 20 A lierne vault of the same sort as that of the Nave Aisles.
▪ II. lierne
obs. form of learn. |