单词 | earth table |
释义 | > as lemmasearth table earth table n. Architecture = plinth course n. at plinth n. Compounds 2. ΚΠ 1822 E. J. Willson Gloss. Gothic Archit. 14/1 in A. Pugin Specimens Gothic Archit. (1823) II. We meet with several particular tables in old accounts. As the earth-table, or ground-table, for the basement, or lowest course of stone above the foundation. 1833 J. Dallaway Disc. Archit. Eng. 175 Earth table—base tablets—‘a course without’, the first horizontal moulding above the ground. 1860 Archaeol. Jrnl. June 130 The base moulding of the tower is simply chamfered, and has a very weak effect by the side of the bold earth-table of the earlier building. 1996 W. Bucher Dict. Building Preserv. 269/2 Ledgment table, the lowest horizontal molding on the exterior of a building, except for the earth table. < as lemmas |
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