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SPRINGER (Fr. rein)

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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 739 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SPRINGER (Fr. See also:rein) , the See also:term given in See also:architecture to the See also:stone from which an See also:arch springs (see ARCH) ; in some cases this is the stone resting on the See also:impost or See also:capital, the upper See also:surface of which is a See also:plane directed to the centre of the arch. In vaulting, however, where the See also:lower stone of the arch or See also:rib is laid in See also:horizontal courses, so as to See also:bond it well into the See also:wall, constituting a See also:system of construction known in See also:France as the tas-de-See also:charge, the springer may be considerably higher. The term is sometimes applied to the lowest stone of a gable.

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