Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Either of two inset abutments sloped to support an arch.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In masonry arch construction, one of the series of consecutive stones extending along the top of the abutment of a segmental arch having its upper face inclined so as to receive the lower stone of the arch.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
side of anarch .
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Examples
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The laying of the first course of the dome is started by placing two bricks, also in header position, on the skewback.
2. Kilns 1987
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The skewback bricks are laid as headers (fig. 2-100) cut to the proper angle.
2. Kilns 1987
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To avoid leaving the center posts in the permanent work, two rows of temporary posts were placed, as shown by Fig. 1, Plate LX, the center wall and skewback were built, and the posts were removed, as shown by Fig. 2, Plate LX, before placing the remainder of the lining.
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Where brick arches were used, the core-wall skewback was concreted behind special forms set up on the sidewalks, or the arch ribs and lagging were used for forms, and the brick arch was not started until after the concrete had set.
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After water-proofing the sand-walls and laying the low-tension ducts, a second pair of carriages, with panels on one side only, for 60 ft. of side-wall and skewback to the 15° line, were set and braced against the core-wall.
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The concrete was carried up to a skewback for the arch, as shown in the brick-roof cross-section (Plate XII) and embedded the ends of the ties.
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The side forms were then placed and braced apart by the struts and concreting continued to the skewback plane indicated in
Concrete Construction Methods and Costs Halbert Powers Gillette
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