Lexicographical Neighbors of Putlocks
Literary usage of Putlocks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"A scaffold should nevei be loaded heavily, as well on account of the work as of
the scaffold itself; for the putlocks resting, as they do, on single bricks, ..."
2. The Roorkee Treatise on Civil Engineering in India edited by Arthur Moffatt Lang (1878)
"The ledgers' and most of the putlocks, however, remain to give steadiness to the
temporary structure ; and so on to the full height of the wall, ..."
3. Treatise on Architecture, Including the Arts of Construction, Building by William Hosking, Arthur Ashpitel, Thomas Tredgold, Thomas Young, John Robinson (1867)
"The ledger and most of the putlocks, however, remain to give steadiness to the
temporary structure, and so on to the full height of the wall, ..."
4. Acts of the Parliament of South Australia by South Australia (1907)
"putlocks shall be not less than five feet long and not less than twelve inches
sectional area, and shall be of stringybark. Scaffold boards shall be not ..."
5. Free Masonry: Its Pretensions Exposed in Faithful Extracts of Its Standard by Henry Dana Ward (1828)
"... or obscure, as " ledgers and putlocks," they think the very brick and mortar
has some hidden meaning, known only to the gifted Mason; and " the ledgers ..."
Other Resources:
