Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A name of various parts in constructions of wood.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A long piece of timber, forming a margin or edge of any piece of construction; esp.
- noun One of the longitudinal pieces, supporting the treads and rises of a flight or run of stairs.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun architecture A long piece of
timber , forming amargin oredge of any piece ofconstruction ; especially one of thelongitudinal pieces supporting aflight or run ofstairs .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Seeing one of the boats approaching, he stepped back off the piles and onto a stringpiece, or beam, that was wide enough to get a footing and where, he supposed, he would be clear of the piles should they be forced against the beam by the docking boat.
The Great Bridge David McCullough 1972
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The starboard quarter grated against the piling, and the open stern windows overhung the stringpiece for a moment.
Gold Out of Celebes Aylward Edward Dingle
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When she rose up from where she had been sitting and went along the shaking stringpiece of the dock, her back was still toward the shore.
Janice Day at Poketown Helen Beecher Long
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There was the usual crowd of loafers waiting for the boat -- all perched along the stringpiece of the wharf.
Janice Day at Poketown Helen Beecher Long
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The bridge had no protection along the side save a simple stringpiece of timber.
Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison Fifteen Years in Solitude Austin Bidwell
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A lanky man, with grizzled brows and untrimmed beard, got up slowly from the stringpiece of the wharf and slouched forward to meet Janice Day.
Janice Day at Poketown Helen Beecher Long
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The decoration is all piled on the front, as elaborate a design, often, as Palladio ever dreamt of, but at the side, every cornice and stringpiece stops as short as if it had been sawn off, and the whole side is a flat blank piece of brickwork.
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Betty laid the Gem alongside the stringpiece, and Grace and Mollie, leaping out, soon had the boat fast.
The Outdoor Girls at Rainbow Lake Or, the stirring cruise of the motor boat Gem Laura Lee Hope
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"She is all that," said the young person on the stringpiece of the dock, "and more too.'
A Sisterly Scheme 1907
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"I wish we were going off with her—maybe to Singapore or Nagasaki," Carl said, slipping his arm through hers, as they balanced on the stringpiece of the wharf, sniffing like deer at the breeze, which for a moment seemed to bear, from distant burgeoning woods, a shadowy hint of burning leaves—the perfume of spring and autumn, the eternal wander-call.
The Trail of the Hawk A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life Sinclair Lewis 1918
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