| abuttal | Chiefly in pl.: an extremity or boundary of land, which abuts upon neighbouring lands; a… | 1545 | Go To Quotation |
| abuttal | intr. Of land: to border on or upon an adjacent piece of land; to abut. rare. | 1545 | Go To Quotation |
| combination-room | The name given in the university of Cambridge (England) to the college parlour where… | 1650 | Go To Quotation |
| desk | trans. To fit up or furnish with desks. | 1508 | Go To Quotation |
| devotee | gen. A person zealously devoted to a particular party, cause, pursuit, etc.; a votary. | 1669 | Go To Quotation |
| diamond-cut | Cut into the shape of a diamond or rhomb. | 1637 | Go To Quotation |
| dorman | = dormant n. 1. | 1374 | Go To Quotation |
| flash | = flashing n. | 1574 | Go To Quotation |
| flower-gentle | = floramour n. | 1561 | Go To Quotation |
| fraughtage | = freightage n. 1. Obs. | 1442 | Go To Quotation |
| fretish | trans. = fret v. | 1601 | Go To Quotation |
| goose-foot | Something arranged or made in the shape of a goose's foot; e.g. a three-branched hinge… | 1516 | Go To Quotation |
| hanged | Furnished or decorated with hangings. Obs. or arch.; usually hung adj. | 1451 | Go To Quotation |
| hard-hewer | A stonemason. | 1447 | Go To Quotation |
| head-stall | A choir-stall for a chief official, having its back against the screen, i.e. facing east. | 1515 | Go To Quotation |
| heightening | Raising, elevation. | 1598 | Go To Quotation |
| hop-pole | A tall pole on which hop-plants are trained. | 1573 | Go To Quotation |
| interclassis | An intermediate smaller ‘classis’, or case of book-shelves in a library. | 1678 | Go To Quotation |
| in-work | pl. Inner works or defences of a fortified place. | 1601 | Go To Quotation |
| ironware | A general name for all light articles made of iron; hardware. | 1447 | Go To Quotation |
| jowpy | A cornice extending between the principals of a Gothic roof, and usually supporting the feet of the secondary principals. | 1374 | Go To Quotation |
| key-keeper | A person who has the custody or control of a key or set of keys. Cf. key-bearer n. 1. | 1473 | Go To Quotation |
| larging | Enlargement. | 1510 | Go To Quotation |
| latch | trans. To cover with interlaced work. (Cf. lace n. 4.) | 1598 | Go To Quotation |
| lattice-window | A window furnished with a lattice; also, in mod. use, one composed of small diamond-shaped panes set in lead-work. | 1515 | Go To Quotation |
| lierne | attrib. in lierne-stud, lierne-vault. | 1466 | Go To Quotation |
| longways | In the direction of the length of a thing; longwise, lengthways; longitudinally. | 1588 | Go To Quotation |
| luthern | A dormer-window. Also luthern-light, luthern-window. | 1669 | Go To Quotation |
| moul | = mould n. (in various senses). In later use chiefly: a button-mould. moul button n. a flat linen-covered button. | 1565 | Go To Quotation |
| nesset | Prob.: = nest n. 2d. | 1614 | Go To Quotation |
| non-currency | Lack of currency; the state or fact of being invalid or out of date. rare. | 1698 | Go To Quotation |
| pensionary | A residence for Cambridge University undergraduates not financially supported by their college. Cf. pensioner n. 5. | 1583 | Go To Quotation |
| planch | trans. To floor using planks; to cover with planks or boards. Now Brit. regional and Canad. | 1516 | Go To Quotation |
| point | Building. To fill in the lines of the joints of (brickwork, masonry, etc.) with mortar or… | 1374 | Go To Quotation |
| pointing | Building. The action of filling exterior joints in brickwork, masonry, etc. (see point v.… | 1374 | Go To Quotation |
| primer | First in time; early; primitive. Now only in compound primer seisin n. at Special uses. | 1448 | Go To Quotation |
| quadrant | = quadrangle n. 2 3. | 1443 | Go To Quotation |
| quarryman | A person (esp. a man) who works in a quarry; one who quarries stone, etc. Cf. quarrier n. | 1442 | Go To Quotation |
| quoining | Stone or brickwork forming the quoin of a wall or building; a piece of such stone… | 1562 | Go To Quotation |
| refront | trans. To provide (a building) with a new front. Also: to replace the front of (a shirt). | 1716 | Go To Quotation |
| roughcast | To coat, cover, or fill in with roughcast (roughcast n. 2a). | 1584 | Go To Quotation |
| scapple | trans. To reduce the faces of (a block of stone; †in 15th c. also of timber) to a plane surface without working them smooth. | 1443 | Go To Quotation |
| serch | ? Some kind of worked stone for building purposes. | 1416 | Go To Quotation |
| slating | The fixing of slates (on a roof or elsewhere); the business of fixing slates. | 1572 | Go To Quotation |
| soulace | A brace or beam of wood used for support between a rafter and collar beam. | 1374 | Go To Quotation |
| spar | trans. To furnish, make, or close in, with spars. Also fig. | 1657 | Go To Quotation |
| staircasing | transf. and fig. Structural organization characterized by staged rises in elevation (also in sense of the vb.). | 1729 | Go To Quotation |
| swan-hopper | Corruption of swan-upper n. at swan-upping n. Derivatives. | 1641 | Go To Quotation |
| talshide | A shide or piece of wood of prescribed length, either round, or split in two or four… | 1444 | Go To Quotation |
| tennis-court | The enclosed quadrangular area, or building, in which the game of real tennis is… | 1564 | Go To Quotation |
| vaulting | The construction of a vault or vaults; the operation of covering or roofing with a vault. | 1512 | Go To Quotation |
| vent | = crenel n. 1. Obs. | 1429 | Go To Quotation |
| whelmer | ? A stone placed horizontally. (But cf. wheeler n. 10.) | 1618 | Go To Quotation |
| wind-beam | A cross-beam tying the rafters of a roof: = collar-beam n. 1. | 1374 | Go To Quotation |
