bull-nose

Architect Leonard Fusco, of GF55 Partners, which designs apartment buildings that generally look more like new-age dormitories than places where anyone really builds a life, has rimmed the building's front windows in heavy frames of custom bull-nose brick with panels of pre-distressed aluminum running vertically between.

High Line Hits a Snag Robbie Whelan 2011

RAY DAVIS, GEORGIA AQUARIUM: Well, as we understand it was a bull-nose ray, which can get rather large.

CNN Transcript Sep 10, 2006 2006

RAY DAVIS, GEORGIA AQUARIUM: Well, as we understand it was a bull-nose ray, which can get rather large.

CNN Transcript Sep 5, 2006 2006

RAY DAVIS, GEORGIA AQUARIUM: Well, as we understand it was a bull-nose ray, which can get rather large.

CNN Transcript Dec 25, 2006 2006

As they flashed by the "bull-nose" she saw silhouetted against the brightening light which streamed across the water from the beach, the sharp outline of a fishing-boat.

El Diablo Brayton Norton 1914

A wide chisel, say about 1-1/4 in. wide, a small iron "bull-nose" plane, and a keyhole saw, will all be helpful, and save

Wood-Carving Design and Workmanship George Jack 1894

Finally, above the upper row of windows, in the place usually occupied by a cornice in European buildings, there was a massive bull-nose moulding, quite three feet deep, also of solid gold, surmounted by the parapet which guarded the flat roof of the building.

Harry Escombe A Tale of Adventure in Peru Harry Collingwood 1886

The wall was built with a vertical face to a height of some twenty feet, above which it swelled outward in the form known as a "bull-nose," the upper surface of which sloped so steeply upward as to render it unclimbable; so that, even if a man, or men, should climb as far as the swell of the bull-nose by means of a pole or ladder, the would-be intruders could get no farther.

In Search of El Dorado Harry Collingwood 1886

There was also a heavy gold string course and bull-nose moulding similar to that on the palace; but, apart from that and the gold-tiled roof, there was no attempt at exterior decorative effect.

Harry Escombe A Tale of Adventure in Peru Harry Collingwood 1886

In return for generous patronage, Melbourne artist Carl Scrase has delivered a postcard of his hand, a bull-nose paper clip sculpture and a collage of cut up photographs of his face on a wooden board, the Herald Sun reported.

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