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Definition of Safety arch
1. Noun. An undecorated arch that is included in order to strengthen or support a construction.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Safety Arch
Literary usage of Safety arch
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Architecture and Building, Biographical, Historical, and by Russell Sturgis (1901)
"safety arch. A discharging arch ; an arch thrown over a lintel to relieve it, or
under a bearing to distribute it over a larger surface of wall. ..."
2. Hawkins' Electrical Dictionary: A Cyclopedia of Words, Terms, Phrases and by Nehemiah Hawkins (1910)
"safety arch.—In building, an arch formed in the body of a wall, as over a door
or window, to distribute and relieve the pressure. Safety Device. ..."
3. An Illustrated Dictionary of Words Used in Art and Archaeology: Explaining by John William Mollett (1883)
"... safety arch, Arch. An arch in a wall over a door or window, to keep the weight
of the •wall above off the lintel. Saddle-roof. ..."
4. A French-English Military Technical Dictionary by Cornélis De Witt Willcox (1899)
"safety arch, brace: (/air) defense; <i , (faic) for the defense, in favor of the
prisoner; arceau en • , (con« ) relieving arch; en , (cons. ..."
5. Rural Affairs by John Jacob Thomas (1863)
"Safety-arch, an arch built solid in the substance of a wall, to sustain any
unusual Weight on that part; a discharging arch. ..."
6. The South Carolina Historical Magazine by South Carolina Historical Society (1902)
"... of both our Colonies & the preservation of many Lives— By order of the Council
of safety arch. Bullock Esqr. for the Honble. provincial Congress Savanna ..."
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