Crossword-Solution: SCARCEMENT
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Scarcement | n. | An offset where a wall or bank of earth, etc., retreats, leaving a shelf or footing. |
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| Ledge | 18 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
The old plural of Eye.
Hint 2 anagram
NEE
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Sentences with SCARCEMENT (5)
The inner wall of the court or central area was faced by a roughly-built wall about a foot in thickness, rising to a height of about 8 feet, and there terminating and forming a scarcement projecting from the main wall.
This inner shell or scarcement, although bonded with the main wall at the door-corners, was not so throughout.
Footnote 82: "As to the scarcement or facing wall, about 1 foot thick and 8 feet high, of such frequent occurrence in the Brochs, it has been suggested that it may have formed the resting-ledge for a conical wooden roof covering the (lower part of the) central area.
This, with the fact that it was found covering what was almost certainly an original doorway to a wall-chamber at Clickamin, suggests the possibility of the scarcement being sometimes, if not generally, a secondary structure."—Rev.
This inner wall was 2½ feet thick, and rose to a height of 8 feet, where the wall-head formed a level scarcement all round the interior.