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‖ pisé|ˈpize|
Also pisée.
[a. F. pisé, subst. use of pa. pple. of piser to beat, pound (earth):—L. pīsare, pinsāre to beat, pound, stamp.]
a. Also, pisé de terre. Stiff clay or earth kneaded, or mixed with gravel, used, esp. in France and some parts of England, for building cottages, walls, etc., by being rammed between boards which are removed as it hardens; also, a name for this mode of building.
1797H. Holland in Com. Board Agric. I. 387 The word pisé is a technical Term..and it has been retained in this translation because it cannot be rendered by any adequate word in the English language. 1805R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. (1807) I. 136 Building in what is termed pisé, or simply by compressing well-wrought earth in moulds. 1852J. Wiggins Embanking 32 A wall of pisé or rammed gravel in a frame might very judiciously be adopted for 2 or 3 feet of the centre of the bank. 1890‘R. Boldrewood’ Squatter's Dream vii, The new cottage which he had judiciously caused to be built of ‘pisé’ or rammed earth. 1919C. Williams-Ellis Building in Cob, Pisé, Chalk & Clay 28 ‘Pisé de Terre’, ‘Chalk Compost’, and ‘Cob’ are three alternative forms of construction. 1936I. L. Idriess Cattle King xx. 183 Homesteads were of roughly gathered stone or pisé, of axe hewn slabs or sheets of bark. 1946B. James in Murdoch & Drake-Brockman Austral. Short Stories (1951) 250 The walls had to be very thick, and that meant more pisé to be mixed, and lifted and rammed. 1960K. M. Kenyon Archaeol. in Holy Land iii. 60 The edges of the pits are revetted by slight walls of pisée and stone. 197736 Home Handyman Projects (Austral. Home Jrnl.) 97/3 Pise de Terre—wall construction of clay or earth—a formwork is made and the earth and clay rammed in firmly. 1978Jrnl. R. Soc. Arts CXXVI. 586/1 Cob..provided good walling; so did damp earth rammed into moulds, and known as pisé.
b. attrib. or adj., as pisé building, pisé earth, pisé terre, pisé wall, pisé work.
1840Cottager's Man. 30 in Libr. Usef. Knowl., Husb. III, Walls..formed of earth in the pisé manner. 1849Ecclesiologist IX. 217 We..think that what our correspondent calls Pisé building is common in Devonshire..and known by the name of cob-building. 1875Knight Dict. Mech. 1714/1 The best material for pisé-work is clay with small gravel⁓stones interposed through it. 1919C. Williams-Ellis Building in Cob, Pisé, Chalk & Clay ii. 57 Pliny gives an excellent account of pisé-building in his Natural History. 1919in Ibid. 74 These iron bars become so tightly jammed when surrounded by the compact pisé earth, that much labour and risk of injury to the work is incurred in extricating them. 1946B. James in Murdoch & Drake-Brockman Austral. Short Stories (1951) 250 The pisé earth had to be dug,..mixed and kneaded with water, shovelled into the frames, rammed thoroughly and then left to set. 1965Austral. Encycl. III. 327 Another interesting example of pisé building was the old Forbes, N.S.W., police barracks. 1971Country Life 7 Oct. 941/1 Clough was commissioned..‘to write a practical book on Pisée Terre (rammed earth) building..to cheapen and expedite rural cottage building in the twenties’. |
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