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COMPOUND PIER

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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 813 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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COMPOUND See also:
PIER (older forms per or Pere, from Med. Lat. pera; the word for piers out of water. For river piers, where a firm, watertight is of obscure origin, and the connexion with Fr. Pierre, Lat. stratum is found at a moderate depth below the river-bed, the pctr
PIER , the architectural See also:

TERM

term given to a clustered See also:

COLUMN (Lat. columna)

column or pier which consists of a centre See also:

mass or See also:

NEWEL (O. Fr. nouel or noel, modern noyau, properly a kernel, from Lat. nux, nut; other foreign equivalents are Ital. albero, Ger. Spindel)

newel, to which engaged or semi-detached shafts have been attached, in See also:

order to perform, or to suggest the performance of, certain definite structural See also:

OBJECTS

objects, such as to carry See also:

ARCHES, COURT OF

arches of additional orders, or to support the transverse or See also:

DIAGONAL (Gr. &a, through, ywvia, a corner)

diagonal ribs of a vault, or the tie See also:

beam of an important roof. In these cases, though performing different functions, the drums of the pier are often cut out of one See also:

stone. There are, however, cases where the shafts are detached from the pier and coupled to it by armulets at See also:

REGULAR

regular heights, as in the See also:

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ENGLISH

English See also:

period.

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