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Definition of Basket-handle arch
1. Noun. A round arch whose inner curve is drawn with circles having three centers.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Basket-handle Arch
Literary usage of Basket-handle arch
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Architecture and Building, Biographical, Historical, and by Russell Sturgis (1901)
"(d) With three centres; (1) Basket Handle Arch ; (2) the round arch with reversed
curve ... Basket Handle Arch. A three-centred arch of the more usual kind ..."
2. A Treatise on Masonry Construction by Ira Osborn Baker (1914)
"A basket-handle arch is one in which the intrados is composed of several arcs of
circles tangent to each other; and a pointed arch is one in which the ..."
3. Gothic Architecture in England: An Analysis of the Origin & Development of by Francis Bond (1906)
"... This is the three-centred or " basket-handle " arch (arc en anse de panier).
The fourth class consists of arches which are struck from four centres. ..."
4. Bulletin by Montana Historical Society, Henry E. Legler Regional Branch, Library, Chicago Public Library, Chicago West Side Historical Society (1910)
"Basket - handle arch for a church window. Ellipse on a bridge arch. Spiral in a
stairway. Class II. Technical drawing (from models only). ..."
5. A Dictionary of Architecture and Building, Biographical, Historical, and by Russell Sturgis (1901)
"(See basket-handle arch under Arch.) THREE-COAT "WORK. Plastering put on in three
coats; superior to two-coat work. Ordinarily, in three-coat work the first ..."
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