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A corbel-table is a horizontal row of corbels, with the panels or filling between them.
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A corbel is a bracket supporting a superincumbent object, or receiving the spring of an arch.
Corbels were employed largely in Gothic architecture. A common form of corbel consists of courses of stones or bricks, each projecting slightly beyond the next below it.
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In architecture a false bearing is any bearing which is not directly upon a vertical support; thus, the weight carried by a corbel has a false bearing.
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In architecture fan tracery is the elaborate geometrical carved work, which spreads over the surface of a vaulting, rising from a Corbel and diverging like the folds of a fan. Fan-tracery vaulting is much used in the Perpendicular style, in which the vault is covered by ribs and veins of tracery, of which all the principal lines diverge from a point, as in Henry VII's chapel, at Westminster.
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A hammer-beam is a short beam attached to the foot of a principal rafter in a roof, in the place of the tie-beam. Hammer-beams are used in pairs, and project from the wall, extending less than half-way across the apartments. The hammer-beam is generally supported by a rib rising up from a corbel below; and in its turn forms the support of another rib, constituting with that springing from the opposite hammer-beam an arch.
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In architecture, a hanging-buttress is a buttress supported on a corbel.
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In architecture a pendant post is a part of the framing of an open timber roof. It is a post set close against the wall, and resting upon a corbel or other solid support, and supporting the ends of a collar beam or any part of the roof.
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In architecture a pendentive is the portion of a vault by means of which the square space in the middle of a building is brought to an octagon or circle to receive a cupola. The term is also applied to the part of a groined vault which is supported by, and springs from, one pier or corbel.
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