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- ballaster: Also see baluster.
- baluster: An upright, often vase-shaped, support for a rail.
- balusters: An upright, often vase-shaped, support for a rail.
- columella: A colonette; the Latin diminutive. Used sometimes for a baluster.
- half baluster: An engaged baluster, projecting about half of its diameter.
- interbaluster: Also see inter.
- spindle baluster: A baluster composed of spindles mass-produced on lathes.
- spool baluster: A baluster composed of spools mass-produced on lathes.
- square-turned: Said of ornamental balusters or the like which are molded or decorated on all four sides; not turned on a lathe.
- turned: Of ornamental wood members, worked on a lathe to produce a circular outline, such as a baluster.
- turned baluster: A baluster composed of turned work mass-produced on lathes.
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- balustrade: A series of balusters supporting a rail.
- balustraded deck: A series of balusters supporting a rail set atop a roof.
- balustraded terrace: A series of balusters supporting a rail enclosing a terrace.
- closed balustrade: A solid balustrade, typically used in porch construction.
- lan kan: In traditional Chinese architecture, a balustrade of wood, bamboo, stone, or brick; the designs in masonry were derived from wood construction.
- stickwork balustrade: A baluster composed of stickwork.
- wooden balustrade: A wooden railing.
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- buttery bar: A ledge or shelf forming a bar on the top of a buttery hatch.
- guard bar: Any bar serving as a protection or means of security; especially, a slight parapet, as set above the sill of a window, and secured commonly to the jamb on either side, thus permitting persons within to lean upon it in comparative safety while looking out of the window…
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- barricade: Originally, a barrier, screen, or wooden wall, stout and useful as protection.
- barrier: A wall or unroofed enclosure of bars or posts intended as a protection, or as a separation between parts of a town or of a room, of wood or iron, or of a permanent material.
- barrier-free: Design for those with physical or other disabilities, involving the provision of alternative means of access to steps (e.g. ramps and elevators). It is also called universal or barrier-free design.
- enclosure: Marking off or surrounding land with fences, walls, or other barriers to prevent ingress/egress, or to delineate ownership…
- false railing: A horizontal structure used as a handhold and/or to block off a hazardous drop.
- inclosure: Marking off or surrounding land with fences, walls, or other barriers to prevent ingress/egress, or to delineate ownership…
- margines: Same as semitae.
- screen: A barrier whose function is to separate or conceal, but not to support; almost always treated decoratively in some way.
- semitae: In an ancient Greek gymnasium, a barrier which separated the wrestlers from the public.
- spina: A barrier dividing an ancient Roman circus lengthwise, about which the racers turned.
- turnstile: A rotating barrier through which one-way passage is effected, sometimes with counting or entrance-fee mechanism; as used in subways, supermarkets, and museums.
- univeral design: See barrier-free.
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- bandreth: A rail or fence enclosing a well.
- brandrith: A rail or fence enclosing a well.
- Buddhist railing: Stone barrier resembling a timber fence, with the horizontals running through the vertical posts, usually surrounding a stupa.
- compound: An enclosure, by wall or fence, securing protection and privacy for a building and its dependencies, or for a group of similar buildings. 2. See clustered column.
- fence: An enclosing framework for land, bearing pickets, boards, rails, or other means of barring passage.
- ha-ha fence: A barrier made by a retaining wall at a place where the ground level is changed. From the upper side this barrier or enclosure will be invisible or hardly seen; a desirable result sometimes in landscape architecture. Written also haw-haw.
- haw-haw: Same as ha-ha.
- haw-haw fence: Also see ha-ha fence.
- hercos: In Greek, a fence or enclosing wall.
- ledger board: The top covering board of a fence. 2. A board let into the face of studding to support on its upper edge the floor joists; a ribbon.
- paling: One of the upright members of a picket fence, fastened to top and bottom rails between posts.
- picket: One of the upright wooden members supported by upper and lower rails between posts in a type of fence; a paling.
- rail fence: A fence in which the rails are set into the posts; adjoining rails either butt against each other or overlap.
- sepimentum: A fence.
- stob: A small post, as one of the uprights in fencing.
- sunk fence: A ha-ha.
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- alms gate: In an abbey or manor house that gate in the bounding wall or courtyard wall where alms were distributed.
- bab: In Muslim architecture, a gate or door.
- bar post: One of the posts driven into the ground to form the sides of a field gate.
- barred gate: A gate with one or more horizontal timber rails.
- barred-and-braced gate: A gate with a diagonal brace to reinforce the horizontal timbers.
- bent approach: An arrangement of two gateways not in line, so that it is necessary to make a sharp turn to pass through the second; for privacy in houses or temples, for security in fortifications.
- corpse gate: Also see lich gate.
- coulisse: Also see cullis.
- cullis: See coulisse.
- dar: In Indian and Persian architecture, a gateway. 2. In Oriental architecture, a dwelling.
- dipylon: In ancient Greece, a gate consisting of two separate gates placed side by side. 2. A gate of this type on the northwestern side of Athens.
- dog bars: Vertical intermediate members in the lower part of a gate.
- gate: A barrier, hinged or hung, usually of open structure.
- gate chamber: A room of any kind in a gate building, as a gate tower or gate house. 2. A sunken panel, box, or recess into which one fold of a gate may be received when it is opened widely, and is not to be allowed to block the passage.
- gate chambers: A room of any kind in a gate building, as a gate tower or gate house. 2. A sunken panel, box, or recess into which one fold of a gate may be received when it is opened widely, and is not to be allowed to block the passage.
- gate house: Either a small outbuilding or a relatively large house beside a gateway to a mansion or manor house where the gatekeeper resides to allow or disallow entrance to the grounds.
- gate pier: A brick, concrete, or stone hanging post.
- gate tower: Entrance to a walled city.
- gate-house: Dwelling or office at or over the entrance to a park, cemetery, country-estate, etc., e.g. a lodge. 2. Apartment over the gate of a city, palace, etc.
- gatehouse : Either a small outbuilding or a relatively large house beside a gateway to a mansion or manor house where the gatekeeper resides to allow or disallow entrance to the grounds.
- gatepost: Also see hanging post.
- gate-post: Upright upon which a gate hangs or against which it shuts.
- gateway: The frame for the gate or a passageway in a fence or exterior garden wall. In medieval times these were imposing structures built over entrances to provide defense and entrance control.
- gopura: A pyramidal gateway tower entrance to a temple, characteristic of the Dravidian architecture of southern India.
- gopuram: In Indian architecture, a monumental gateway.
- hanging post: Also see gatepost, hinge post, swinging post.
- killesse: Also see coulisse.
- lich gate: A covered gate at the main entrance of a churchyard, usually protected by a spreading gable roof.
- lich-gate: See lych-gate.
- ling hsing men: A Chinese gateway having two main posts; an inclined member is attached to each post, at an angle which tilts upward toward the centerline; constructed of wood or stone.
- lych gate: A sheltering gatehouse near a church or burial ground, under which a bier may be rested.
- lych-gate: A sheltering gatehouse near a church or burial ground, under which a bier may be rested.
- men: In Chinese architecture, a gate or door.
- moon gate: In traditional Chinese architecture, a circular opening in a wall.
- p’ai lou: A monumental Chinese arch or gateway with one, three, or five openings; erected at the entrance to a palace, tomb, or processional way. Usually built of stone in imitation of wood construction.
- pai-loo: In China, a decorated gateway.
- pickets: Vertical structural members in a fence or gate.
- pishtaq: In Muslim or Persian architecture, a monumental gateway marking the entrance to a mosque, caravanserai, madrasah, or mausoleum.
- porta: The gate of an ancient Roman city or citadel, or of any open space enclosed by a wall. Also see janua.
- porta pompae: The gate through which the Circensian procession entered the circus; situated in the center of the straight end of the circus, with the stalls for the horses arranged on each side of it.
- postern gate: A small gateway at the side or back of a fortress, monastery or town wall.
- propyla: In ancient Egyptian architecture, a monumental gateway, usually between two towers in outline like truncated pyramids, of which one or a series stood before the actual entrance or pylon of most temples or other important buildings.
- propylaea: Also see propylaia.
- propylaeum: An imposing gateway in front of and separate from a temple. Propylaea, the entrance to the Acropolis at Athens.
- propylaia: From Greek pro, “before,” plus pule, “gate.” An entrance gateway; refers to entrance gateways to Greek temple enclosures.
- propylon: In ancient Egyptian architecture, a monumental gateway, usually between two towers in outline like truncated pyramids, of which one or a series stood before the actual entrance or pylon of most temples or other important buildings.
- resurrection gate: A lich gate; so called from the frequent occurrence of representations of the resurrection carved or painted upon such structures.
- sally port: An underground passage or concealed gate which serves to link the central and outer works of a fortress.
- sally-port: Postern or side-gate, or a subterranean passage, between the inner and outer works of a fortification, used by defenders to sally forth.
- sanmon: A type of large gate at a Zen temple; has two roofs, the upper one of which usually is of the hip and gable type (see irimoya-yane). This type of gate has a second story containing a room for Buddhist images.
- shutting post: The post at the side of a gate against which it shuts.
- shutting shoe: A device of iron or stone with a shoulder, sunk in the middle of a gateway, against which the gate is shut and secured.
- swinging post: See hanging post.
- tetrapylon: A structure characterized by having four gateways as an architectural feature. 2. An archway having four equal facades, at the intersection of two streets.
- toran: A monumental and richly decorate gateway in the enclosure of a Buddhist stupa in Indian architecture.
- torii: The posts-and-curved-lintels gateway to a Shinto temple.
- wicket: A small opening in a door or gate.
- yett: An iron gate.
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- cheval de frise: Sharply pointed nails or spikes set into the top of a barrier.
- cheval-de-frise: Sharply pointed nails or spikes set into the top of a barrier.
- chevaux: Protective spikes along the top of a wall or fence.
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- spindle: A turned wooden element, often used in screens, stair railings and porch trim.
- spindle frieze: Decorative feature, commonly in porches, with an elevated row of spindles just below the roof line, as in the frieze of a building.
- spindle work: Decorative sticks of wood turned on a lathe.
- spindled porch frieze: Any plain or decorative band, or board, on the top of a wall immediately below the cornice.
- spindlework: The use of multiple decorative spindles as architectural ornaments, along porch and stair railings, for example. Wood spindles are made from doweling turned on a lathe, shaped somewhat like the spindles used in spinning yarn. Associated with Queen Anne and other Victorian styles.
skin / barrier / trench
- haha: A barrier in the form of a trench; usually used to prevent livestock from crossing; a sunken fence.
- ha-ha: A barrier in the form of a trench; usually used to prevent livestock from crossing; a sunken fence.
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