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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 477 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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CROCKET (Ital. uncinetti, Fr. crochet, crosse, Ger. Hdklein, Knollen)

CROCKET (Ital. uncinetti, Fr. crochet, crosse, Ger. Hdklein, Knollen) , in See also:

ARCHITECTURE (Lat. architectura, from the Gr. ap)(LTEKrwv, a master-builder)

architecture, an See also:

ORNAMENT (Lat. ornare, to adorn)

ornament See also:

RUNNING

running up the sides of See also:

GABLETS (diminutive of "gable")

gablets, See also:

hood-moulds, pinnacles, See also:

SPIRES (Ger. Speyer or Speier)

spires; generally a winding See also:

STEM (O. Eng. staefn, stemn, cf. Du. stain, Ger. Stamm, &c., probably related to " staff ")

stem like a creeping plant, with See also:

FLOWERS, ARTIFICIAL

flowers or leaves projecting at intervals, and terminating in a See also:

FINIAL (a variant of " final "; Lat. finis, end)

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