| 单词 |
boltel |
| 释义 |
boltel Arch.|ˈbəʊltəl|
Also 5 boltell, 5–9 bowtel(l, 6–7 bou(l)tell, boultle, 8 boultine, 9 boutel.
[Conjectured to be f. bolt n.1 ‘from its resemblance to the shaft of an arrow or bolt’ (Gloss. Archit.): but as bolt is a Teutonic word, and -el of Fr. origin, the conjecture is hazardous.]
An old name for a plain round moulding; a shaft of a clustered pillar.
1463Bury Wills (1850) 39 To sette here ageyn the bowtell there hire light stant. 1565Cooper Thesaurus s.v. Stria, The boltell or thing that riseth up betwene the two chanels. 1677Moxon Mech. Exerc. (1703) 267 Ovolo, or Boltel. 1738Chambers Cycl., Boultine or Boltel, in architecture, the workman's term for a convex moulding, whose periphery is just 1/4 of a circle. 1848T. Rickman Archit. xvii, The mouldings are good Norman, consisting merely of plain rounds, or boutells. 1849Freeman Archit. 381 We sometimes find such shafts or bowtels, with bases. 1876Gwilt Archit. Gloss., Bowtel or Boltel.
Hence ˈboltelled ppl. a., moulded with boltels.
1575Laneham Let. 50 Each windo..parted from oother..by flat fayr bolteld columns. 1611Cotgr., Embouti, boultled; raised into, wrought with boultles. |
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