Word Meanings - GROINED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Built with groins; as, a groined ceiling; a groined vault.

Related words: (words related to GROINED)

• VAULTING
  1. The act of constructing vaults; a vaulted construction. 2. Act of one who vaults or leaps.
• VAULTY
  Arched; concave. "The vaulty heaven." Shak.
• VAULT
  An arched structure of masonry, forming a ceiling or canopy. The long-drawn aisle and fretted vault. Gray. 2. An arched apartment; especially, a subterranean room, use for storing articles, for a prison, for interment, or the like; a cell; a cellar.
• BUILT
  Shape; build; form of structure; as, the built of a ship. Dryden.
• CEIL
  heaven, vault, arch, covering; cf. Gr. 1. To overlay or cover the inner side of the roof of; to furnish with a ceiling; as, to ceil a room. The greater house he ceiled with fir tree. 2 Chron. iii. 5 2. To line or finish a surface, as of a wall,
• CEILING
  The inner planking of a vessel. Camp ceiling. See under Camp. -- Ceiling boards, Thin narrow boards used to ceil with. (more info) The inside lining of a room overhead; the under side of the floor above; the upper surface opposite to the floor.
• GROINED
  Built with groins; as, a groined ceiling; a groined vault.
• GROIN
  The snout of a swine. Chaucer.
• VAULTER
  One who vaults; a leaper; a tumbler. B. Jonson.
• VAULTED
  Arched like the roof of the mouth, as the upper lip of many ringent flowers. (more info) 1. Arched; concave; as, a vaulted roof. 2. Covered with an arch, or vault.
• VAULTAGE
  Vaulted work; also, a vaulted place; an arched cellar. Shak.
• ENVAULT
  To inclose in a vault; to entomb. Swift.
• CROSS-VAULTING
  Vaulting formed by the intersection of two or more simple vaults.
• JERRY-BUILT
  Built hastily and of bad materials; as, jerry-built houses.
• ICE-BUILT
  1. Composed of ice. 2. Loaded with ice. "Ice-built mountains." Gray.
• OVERBUILT
  Having too many buildings; as, an overbuilt part of a town.
• SEA-BUILT
  Built at, in, or by the sea.
• CLINCHER-BUILT
  See CLINKER-BUILT
• CARVELBUILT
  Having the planks meet flush at the seams, instead of lapping as in a clinker-built vessel.
• FRIGATE-BUILT
  Built like a frigate with a raised quarter-deck and forecastle.
• CLOUD-BUILT
  Built of, or in, the clouds; airy; unsubstantial; imaginary. Cowper. So vanished my cloud-built palace. Goldsmith.
• BIVAULTED
  Having two vaults or arches.