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- noun Plural form of
centering .
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Examples
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M. Place's account of the curious fashion in which the workmen of M.ssoul will build a pointed vault without the help of any of those wooden centerings in use in Europe.
A History of Art in Chaldæa & Assyria, v. 1 Georges Perrot 1873
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It is unlikely that timber centerings were used to sustain the vaults during construction.
A History of Art in Chaldæa & Assyria, v. 1 Georges Perrot 1873
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East where there are any large centerings of capital or of enterprise -- not even our yellow-dog states. "
The Plum Tree David Graham Phillips 1889
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