BRICK HOUSES DICTIONARY OF TERMS Bat—A part of a brick.
Batter—A term used to signify the slope of a wall upward and away from the observer. When the slope toward him, it is designated overhang.
Bcd—In bricklaying, the horizontal surfaces in which the bricks of the walls lie in courses.
Belt--A course of brick projecting from a brick wall, generally in line with the sills of the windows. It may he either molded or plain.
Bond-Timbers--Timbers embedded horizontally in the walls of brick buildings in tiers, to which laths, battens, etc., are attached.
Breaking Joint—The arrangement of bricks so as not to allow two joints to come immediately over each other.
Bond—The arrangement of briek in wall to secure the best combination of strength and good appearance. Efflorescence—The formation of a white scum or powder on the surface of brickwork.
Encaustic—Refers to the fixing of colors on tile, porcelain, glass, or brick by burning; hence encaustic tile, encaustic brick, etc.
Flue—The passage in a chimney through which the smoke and gases make their exit. Each passage is a flue; all the exits in combination comprise the chimney.
Herringbone—The diagonal arrangement of brick in a wall or pavement.
Headers—Briek laid across the thickness of the wall. Heading Course—A course entirety composed of headers. Stretchers—Brick laid lengthwise in the wall. Terra-Cotta—Burned clay of fine quality molded into architectural ornaments, pillars. vases, etc., and capable of coloration to duplicate any form of stone work; also molded into fireproofing hollow tile.
Trimmer Arch—An arch built in front of a fireplace, and supporting the hearth.
Withen—The partition between two chimney•flues in the same stack or chimney.
Tuck-Pointing—Consists in filling up the raked-out joints of old brickwork with cement or hard-setting ortar.
Course—Name given to one row of bricks in any thickness of wall between two bed-joints.
Cross-Joints--iShort, vertical joints at right angles to and connecting the bed-joints. Also called perpends, Transverse Joints—Cross-joints continued through the thickness of the wall.
Lap—The horizontal distance between the crossjoints in two successive courses.
Closers (King and Queen)—A king closer is a brick of normal width for half its length, and reduced to half its width in the remaining half, making a closer. A queen closer is a brick cut to half its width throughout its length. The some effect is oftenproduced by using two half-lengths.
Toothing—When a brick wall is to he continued at some future time, it is toothed by leaving each header projecting 2'/u in. beyond the stretching courses above and below no that the new work can be bonded to it. Racking—Where part of the wall is delayed while the rest is carried up, the edges of the work being done are racked back 2% in at each course, to reduce possibility of defects through unequal settlement of the new work.
Scutch—A stock and blade used for cutting hard brick. Club Hammer and Bolster—Used for cutting brick with greater exactitude than can be done by the trowel. The bolster is a kind of broad chisel.