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A brick laid vertically with the longer face edge exposed. |
SOLDIER |
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A brick laid vertically with the broad face exposed. |
SAILOR |
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A brick laid horizontally on the longer edge with the broad face exposed. Also called Bull Stretcher. |
SHINER |
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A brick or other masonry unit laid horizontally in a wall with the longer edge exposed or parallel to the surface. |
STRETCHER |
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A brick or other masonry unit laid horizontally in a wall with the shorter end exposed or parallel to the surface. |
HEADER |
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A brick laid horizontally on the longer edge with the shorter end exposed. Also called Rollock. |
ROWLOCK |
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A masonry unit of clay, formed into rectangular prism while plastic and hardened by drying in the sun or firing in a kiln. |
BRICK |
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Brick made for general building purposes and act specially treated for color and texture. Also called building brick. |
COMMON BRICK |
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A designation indicating the permissible variation in size, color, chippage, and distortion allowed in a facing brick unit. |
BRICK TYPE |
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Brick construction, eps. the art of bonding a brick. |
BRICKWORK |
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Any of various arrangements of masonry units having regular, recognizable, usually overlapping pattern to increase the strength and enhance the appearance of the construction. |
BOND |
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A brickwork or masonry bond composed of overlapping stretchers. Also called Stretchers Bond. |
RUNNING BOND |
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A continuous course of soldiers in brickwork. |
SOLDIER BOND |
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A brickwork or masonry bond having successive courses of stretchers with all head joints aligned vertically. Also calles Stacked Bond. |
STACK BOND |
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A brickwork bond having a course of headers between every five or six courses of stretchers. Also called American Bond. |
COMMON BOND |
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A masonry unit specially formed or cut to finish a course or complete the bond at the corner of the wall. Also called Closure. |
CLOSER |
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A continuous course of stretchers in brickwork. |
STRETCHING COURSE |
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A continuous course of headers in brickwork. |
HEADING COURSE |
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A continuous course of headers or bondstones overlapping more that one wythe of masonry. |
BOND COURSE |
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A brickwork having alternate courses of headers and strechers in which the headers are centeredon stretchers andthe joints between stretchers line up vertically in all course. |
ENGLISH BOND |
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A brick of half the normal width, used for completing a course or for spacing regular bricks. Also called Queen Closure. |
QUEEN CLOSER |
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A modified English Bond in which the head joints in the stretching courses are offset by half the lenght of the stretcher. Also calles Dutch Bond. |
ENGLISH CROSS BOND |
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A brickwork bond having alternating headers and stretchers in eah course, each header being centered above and below a stretcher. |
FLEMISH BOND |
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A three-quarter brick for finishing a course of for spacing regular bricks. Also called King Closure. |
KING CLOSER |
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A form of Flemish bond in which the courses are offset to form a diamond pattern. |
FLEMISH DIAGONAL BOND |
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A modified Flemish Bond having courses of alternate headers and stretchers alternating with stretching course. |
FLEMISH CROSS BOND |
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A brick having a darker end exposed as header in a patterned brickwork. |
FLARE HEADER |
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A brickwork bond for lightly loaded boundary walls, having sequence of a header and three stretchers in each course, with each header being center ovr a header in alternate courses. |
GARDEN-WALL BOND |
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