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1778 J. Abercrombie Universal Gardener & Botanist at Dianthus For want of a covered stage to screen the flowers, you may contrive a kind of small umbrellas or round-spreading caps,..having a socket in the middle to receive the tops of the support-stick.

1810 J. Smith Syst. Mod. Geogr. I. 330 The tents of this people are composed of pieces of the bark of trees sewed together, and covered with rein-deer skins; their shape is pyramidal, their support poles of a moderate thickness.

1831 Ld. Carbery Observ. Grand Jury Syst. Ireland 54 I would, therefore, propose, that all damages done to the battlements, or support walls, of bridges, should be charged on the parish in which the bridge is situate.

1847 C. Morfit Chem. applied to Manuf. Soap & Candles xlvi. 412 Each of these cogs is fixed at the end of the two support beams.

1860 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Patents 1859: Arts & Manuf. I. 214 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (36th Congr., 1st Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc. 12) VII T is the support point of the spoke whose elevation is regulated by the wedge V.

1872 P. L. Simmonds Commerc. Dict. Trade Products (rev. ed.) 457/2 Strut, in building, a support beam on which masonry rests.

1921 Gas Age 27 Aug. 240/3 A support wall is left between each door straight through the furnace.

1926 H. W. Krieger Coll. Primitive Weapons & Armor of Philippine Islands in United States National Museum 51 It is customary for the individual owner of such spears to use them as a support staff in climbing the steep hills and mountains.

1976 M. Machlin Pipeline liii. 526 By one p.m. Simon Orloff had climbed the twelve foot support member.

2003 A. K. Lathrop Churches of Minnesota Gloss. p. xvii Engaged buttress, a support buttress attached to the building throughout its length.

2007 Time Out N.Y. 19 July 113/4 Stilt walkers from hobo-cabaret act Yard Dogs Road Show danced deliriously and an excited fan climbed a support beam to swing from the tent's ropes.