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BRICKWORK , in See also:

BUILDING

building, the See also:

TERM

term applied to constructions made of bricks. The tools and implements employed by the bricklayer are:—the See also:

TROWEL (Med. Eng. truel, O. Fr. truelle, Low Lat. truella, a variant of trulla, diminutive of trua, stirring spoon, ladle, Gr. ropbvrt, from the root tar, to turn round and round; cf. ropebs, borer)

trowel for spreading the See also:

MORTAR

mortar; the plumb-See also:

RULE

rule to keep the See also:

WORK

work perpendicular, or in the See also:

case of an inclined or battering See also:

wall, to a See also:

REGULAR

regular See also:

BATTER

batter, for the plumb-rule may be made to suit any required inclination; the spirit-level to keep the work See also:

HORIZONTAL

horizontal, often used in See also:

CONJUNCTION (from Lat. conjungere, to join together)

conjunction with a straight-edge in See also:

order to test a greater length; and the See also:

GAUGE, or GAGE (Med. Lat. gauja, jaugia, Fr. jauge, perhaps connected with Fr. jale, a bowl, galon, gallon)

gauge-See also:

rod with the See also:

BRICK (derived according to some etymologists from the Teutonic bricke, a disk or plate; but more authoritatively, through the French brique, originally a " broken piece," applied especially to bread, and so to clay, from the Teutonic brikan, to break)

brick-courses marked on it. The See also:

QUOINS (an old variant spelling of " coin," from Lat. cuneus, a wedge)

quoins or angles are first built up with the aid of the gauge-rod, and the intermediate work is kept regular by means of the See also:

LINE

line and line pins fixed in the See also:

JOINTS

joints. The raker, jointer, pointing rule and Frenchman are used in pointing joints, the pointing See also:

STAFF (O. Eng. staef, cf. Du. staf, Ger. Stab, &c.; Icel. stafr meant also a written letter, and O. Eng. stafas, the letters of the alphabet; " stave," one of the thin pieces of wood of which a cask is made, is a doublet)

staff being held on a small See also:

BOARD (O. Eng. bord)

board called the See also:

HAWK (O. Eng. hafoc or heafoc, a common Teutonic word, cf. Dutch havik, Ger. Habicht; the root is hab-, haf-, to hold, cf. Lat. accipiter, from capere)

hawk. For roughly cutting bricks the large trowel is used; for neater work such as facings, the bolster and See also:

CLUB (connected with " clump ")

club-See also:

HAMMER, FRIEDRICH JULIUS (1810-1862)

hammer; the See also:

COLD (in O. Eng. cald and ceald, a word coming ultimately from a root cognate with the Lat. gelu, gelidus, and common in the Teutonic languages, which usually have two distinct forms for the substantive and the adjective, cf. Ger. Kolte, kalt, Dutch koude

cold See also:

CHISEL (from the O. Fr. cisel, modern ciseau, Late Lat. cisellum, a cutting tool, from caedere, to cut)

chisel is for See also:

general cutting away, and for chases and holes. When bricks require to be cut, the work is set out with the square, See also:

BEVEL (from an O. Fr. word, cf. mod. biveau, a joiner's instrument)

bevel and compasses. If thebrick to be shaped is a hard one it is placed on a V-shaped cutting See also:

block, an incision made. where desired with the See also:

TIN (Lat.- stannum, whence the chemical symbol " Sn "; atomic weight =117.6, 0=16)

tin saw, and after the bolster and club-hammer have removed the portion of the brick, the scutch, really a small See also:

AXE (0. Eng. aex; a word common, in different forms, in the Teutonic languages, and akin to the Greek 41v17; the New English Dictionary prefers the spelling " ax ")

axe, is used to hack off the rough parts. For cutting soft bricks, such as rubbers and maims, a See also:

FRAME

frame saw with a blade of soft See also:

IRON [symbol Fe, atomic weight 55.85 (0=16)]

iron See also:

WIRE (A.S. wir, a wire; cf. Swed. vire, to twist, M.H.G. wiere, a gold ornament, Lat. viriae, armlets, ultimately from the root wi, to twist, bind)

wire is used, and the See also:

FACE (from Lat. fades, derived either from facere, to make, or from a root fa-, meaning " appear "; cf. Gr. cbatvstv)

face is brought to a true See also:

SURFACE

surface'on the rubbing See also:

stone, a slab of See also:

YORKSHIRE

Yorkshire stone. In See also:

ORDINARY (med. Lat. ordinarius, Fr. ordinaire)

ordinary practice a See also:

scaffold is carried up with the walls and made to See also:

REST (O. Eng. rest, reste, bed, cognate with other Teutonic forms, e.g. Ger. Rast, Riiste, rest, and probably Gothic Rasta, league, i.e. resting or stopping place)

rest on them.

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