Definition of Scoinson

1. part of a door jamb [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Scoinson

scoffed
scoffer
scofferies
scoffers
scoffery
scoffing
scoffingly
scoffings
scofflaw
scofflaws
scoffs
scog
scogged
scogging
scogs
scoinson (current term)
scoinson arch
scoinsons
scoke
scold
scolded
scolder
scolders
scolding
scoldingly
scoldings
scolds
scoleces
scoleciasis
scolecid

Literary usage of Scoinson

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Gothic Architecture in France, England, and Italy by Thomas Graham Jackson (1915)
"The rib is the scoinson arch, and The scom- the arch between it and the tracery arch is the rear and rear arch. The wall being built of rubble faced with ..."

2. A Dictionary of Architecture and Building, Biographical, Historical, and by Russell Sturgis (1901)
"scoinson ARCH. An arch carrying a part only of the thickness of a wall, as behind a window ... (Compare scoinson Arch.) SCOP AS ; sculptor and architect. ..."

3. Gothic Architecture in England: An Analysis of the Origin & Development of by Francis Bond (1906)
"(Professor Willis' scoinson arch), and the space between, ... window and rear arches are concentric. t Here w = window ; R = rear-vault ; S = scoinson arch. ..."

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