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Definition of Bearing wall
1. Noun. Any wall supporting a floor or the roof of a building.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bearing Wall
Literary usage of Bearing wall
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Safety in Building Construction by Travelers Insurance Companies (1921)
"Every bearing wall with face brick bonded with clip courses or ties, and every
bearing wall faced with ashlar shall have a total thickness of at least 4 ..."
2. Modern Farm Buildings: Being Suggestions for the Most Approved Ways of by Alfred Hopkins (1920)
"A thick coping stone seems to indicate a bearing for some further construction
and of course is the very method pursued for the resisting, bearing wall. ..."
3. Building Code Recommended by the National Board of Fire Underwriters, New by National Board of Fire Underwriters (1915)
"The total area of openings and flues in any bearing wall shall not in any case
exceed 60 per cent. 12. In all buildings, walls 12 inches thick, ..."
4. Hollow Tile Construction: A Practical Explanation of Modern Methods of by John Joseph Cosgrove (1921)
"... this gives a permissible load on a 4-inch hollow tile bearing wall feet high
of 7800 pounds per lineal foot. A hollow tile bearing wall built of 8-inch ..."
5. The Stonemason and the Bricklayer: Being Practical Details and Drawings (1891)
"The lines of bearing wall dd, or of piers, are shown at « «; //being part of a
girder or binding joist. Fig. 18. '' Footings " or Foundation Courses of a ..."
6. International Library of Technology: A Series of Textbooks for Persons by International Textbook Company (1903)
"The combined width of openings, in any bearing wall carrying the ends of ...
or door opening in a bearing wall comes within 12 inches of the bottom of the ..."
7. Supplement to Second Edition of Kerr's Cyclopedic California Codes by James Manford Kerr (1922)
"In every tenement house or hotel hereafter erected, the studs in every bearing
wall and partition shall be not less than two inches by four inches, ..."
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