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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 735 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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LINTEL (0. Fr. lintel, mod. linteau, from Late Lat. limitellum, limes, boundary, confused in sense with limen, threshold; the Latin name is supercilium, Ital. soprasogli, and Ger. Stutz)

LINTEL (0. Fr. lintel, mod. linteau, from See also:
LATE
Late See also:
LAT
Lat. limitellum, limes, boundary, confused in sense with limen, See also:
THRESHOLD
threshold; the Latin name is supercilium, Ital. soprasogli, and Ger. Stutz) , in See also:

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

architecture, a See also:

HORIZONTAL

horizontal piece of See also:

stone or See also:

TIMBER

timber over a See also:

DOOR (corresponding to the Gr. Bbpa,. Lat. fores or valvae; the English word, with other forms common in allied languages, comes from the same Indo-European stem as the Gr. Obpa and Lat. fares)

door-way or opening, provided to carry the superstructure . In See also:

order to relieve the See also:

LINTEL (0. Fr. lintel, mod. linteau, from Late Lat. limitellum, limes, boundary, confused in sense with limen, threshold; the Latin name is supercilium, Ital. soprasogli, and Ger. Stutz)

lintel from too See also:

GREAT

great a pressure a " discharging See also:

arch " is generally built over it .

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