Crossword-Solution: VOUSSOIRS
We have 3 clues for the answer “VOUSSOIRS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| ARCH, part of | 12 answers |
| ARCH, type of | 35 answers |
| ARCHITECTURAL arch, type of | 35 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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eruption
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Sentences with VOUSSOIRS (5)
Thomas Paine's celebrated bridge at Sunderland had a span of 236 feet and a rise of 34 feet, and was constructed of six ribs, and is remarkable from the fact that the arched girder principle used in the Coalbrookdale and Buildwas bridges was rejected, that the ribs were composed of segments or voussoirs, each made up of 125 parts, thus treating the material in the manner of stone.
The speaker does not claim that arches are maintained by the cement or mortar joining the voussoirs together, but that the lines of pressure will be materially changed, and the same calculations are not applicable to both the unloaded and the loaded arch.
The proportion of voussoirs to arches naturally depended upon the size of the arch,--large voussoirs to large arches, small voussoirs to small arches.
Gauged arches are composed of specially made soft bricks, which are cut and rubbed to gauges or templates so as to form perfectly fitting voussoirs.
Generally, so far as could be ascertained, the line of pressure lies within the middle half of the depth of the voussoirs.