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dado head

Architecture; General architecture

A power-driven rotary cutter, usually consisting of two identical circular saws with a chipper between them; used in woodw or king for cutting flat-bottomed grooves.

dagger

Architecture; General architecture

A small decorated tracery motif in the form of a distorted cusped lancet, with the foot pointed; a pointed oval-shaped opening in the tracery.

dagoba

Architecture; General architecture

In Buddhist architecture, a monumental structure containing relics of Buddha or of some Buddhist saint.

dais

Architecture; General architecture

A raised platform reserved for the seating of speakers or dignitaries.

dalan

Architecture; General architecture

In Persian and Indian architecture, a veranda, or sometimes a more stately reception hall, more or less open to the weather, with a roof carried on columns, or the like.

dalle

Architecture; General architecture

A slab or large tile of stone, baked clay,etc., esp. a tile of which the surface is incised or otherwise ornamented, such as the medieval sepulchral slabs set in the pavement and walls of churches.

damp course

Architecture; General architecture

In masonry, an impervious horizontal layer of material (as tile, dense limestone, metal, etc.) to prevent the capillary entrance of moisture from the ground or a lower course, but used also below ...