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Keywords: Pillar, Pier, Arch, Arcade, Aginst

Related Terms: Flying Buttress, Arcade, Bracket, Brattice, Buttress, Corbel, Counterfort, Cribbing, Footing, Girder, Hoarding, Impost , Jetty , Joist, Ledger , Mudsill, Parapet, Pedestal, Pier, Pilaster, Pillar, Plinth, Podium, Surbase, Load Bearing Wall, Tie Beam, Relieving Arch, Joists, Top Plate, Corbel Arch, Curtain Wall, Ceiling Joist, Corbelling, Sleeper Wall, Bridging, Bressumer, Load-Bearing Wall, Sill Plate, Wall Plate, Floor Joists, Bearing Wall, Non-Bearing Wall, Lateral Support, Girt, Floor Joist, Skewback, Cap , Post And Lintel, Piers

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A half pier or pillar attached to a wall to support an arch.

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Half pillar or half pier attached to the wall to support an arch. (Wood, Margaret. The English Medieval House, 414)

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A half pillar attached to and projecting from a wall, used to carry one end of an arch

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Half-pier bonded into a wall to carry an arch.

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An engaged column, pilaster, or similar structure that either projects from a compound pier or some other supporting device or is bonded to a wall and carries one end of an arch, often at the end of an arcade. A nave arcade, for example, may have nine pillars and two responds. Vertical wall elements in perpendicular style architecture.

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Half pillar at the end of an arcade built aginst a wall

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