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Scabbling—also called scappling—is the process of reducing stone or concrete. In masonry, it refers to shaping a stone to a rough square by use of an axe or hammer . [ 1 ] In Kent, rag-stone masons call this "knobbling". [ 1 ]
The Operative Plasterers' and Cement Masons' International Association of the United States and Canada (OPCMIA) is a trade union of plasterers and cement masons in the construction industry in the United States and Canada.
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Slipform stonemasonry is a method for making a reinforced concrete wall with stone facing in which stones and mortar are built up in courses within reusable slipforms.It is a cross between traditional mortared stone wall and a veneered stone wall.
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The working principle of the plug and feathers. Each set consists of a metal wedge (the plug), and two metal shims (the feathers). The feathers are wide at the bottom, and tapered and curved at the top.
The name lewis may come from the Latin levo -avi, -atum meaning to levitate or lift, [1] but the Oxford English Dictionary Online [2] states, "the formation and the phonology are not easily explained on this hypothesis", preferring "origin obscure", and speculating that the term may derive from a personal name.
Snecked masonry in the walls of Tweedmouth Memorial Chapel at the Royal Northern Infirmary, Inverness, Scotland. Snecked masonry has a mixture of roughly squared stones of different sizes.