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Definition of Abutment arch
1. Noun. An arch supported by an abutment.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Abutment Arch
Literary usage of Abutment 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)
"RS abutment arch. That arch of a series which comes next to the outer abutment ;
as the land arch of a bridge. Back Arch. An arch carrying the back or inner ..."
2. Aide-mémoire to the Military Sciences: Framed from Contributions of Officers by Great Britain Army. Royal Engineers (1862)
"The abutment arch of the Hutcheson Bridge, Glasgow (fig. 5), built by Mr. R.
Stevenson, is a segment of 60 degrees of a circle, the radius and span being ..."
3. The Roorkee Treatise on Civil Engineering in India edited by Arthur Moffatt Lang (1878)
"resist the effort of an arch to turn it over, will be best illustrated by an
example. The abutment arch of the ..."
4. Civil Engineer and Architect's Journal (1840)
"... be nine feet eight inches under the lower edge of the string-course at the
springing of the abutment arch, SW angle of the West bridge at Enniskillen. ..."
5. A treatise on mountain roads, live loads, and bridges by Henry St. Clair Wilkins (1879)
"The case has now been brought down to the point where the transverse cracks in
arches, and a longitudinal crack in an abutment arch, have their origin below ..."
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