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Definition of Centrings
1. centring [n] - See also: centring
Lexicographical Neighbors of Centrings
Literary usage of Centrings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Story of a House by Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc (1874)
"began already to appear in the excavation, to construct which wooden centrings
were necessary. The carpenter was asked to bring sawyers to cut up the poplar ..."
2. A Text-book of the History of Architecture by Alfred Dwight Foster Hamlin (1907)
"Accordingly, a skeleton of light ribs was first built on wooden centrings, and
these ribs, when firmly " set," became themselves supports for intermediate ..."
3. A treatise on mountain roads, live loads, and bridges by Henry St. Clair Wilkins (1879)
"One method has been to give the centrings a curve rising slightly above the curve
the arch is intended to assume. This is not a bad plan when the arch is of ..."
4. A Manual of Elementary Geometrical Drawing, Involving Three Dimensions by Samuel Edward Warren (1867)
"Not* The general designing of these massive centrings may call for as much of
scientific engineering knowledge, and their details and management may call ..."
5. The Mechanics' Magazine, Museum, Register, Journal, and Gazette (1841)
"The centrings were framed in their places. The cradles which supported the bearing
timbers of the lower truss were morticed into sleepers resting upon ..."
6. The Life and Times of General Sir James Browne, R.E., K.C.B., K.C.S.I by McLeod Innes (1905)
"They, the centrings, rested on large cases in sections filled tight with sand,
which, when the time arrived, was gently run out, under guidance, ..."
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