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corner post

corner post, 1
1. In a timber structure, a post which is placed at a corner or return angle to provide for exterior or interior nailing.
2. A metal mullion member which connects two sheets of glass at an angle, forming a corner.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Architecture and Construction. Copyright © 2003 by McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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I started by screwing the cross-pieces to the corner posts, starting at the bottom.
Corner Posts The corner posts are no longer considered to be touch in goal, except when the ball is grounded against the post.
Corner posts with 2-inch tenons were constructed of standard and better Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii), No.
Begin mid rail installation by loosely bolting the rail holder fitting around the corner post at approximately mid-level.
The current CPSC regulation addresses hanging by entrapment, but neither it nor the ASTM voluntary standard addresses the height of the corner post extensions and finials or other "catch points."
Many of the 'mourners' wore black arm bands as part of their protest to mark the closure of Princes Corner post office in Harborne which will shut its doors for the final time today.
We got ``specs'' on the pitch wall, halfway between the goal and the Kemlyn Road corner post.
In his quest to become world wrestling champion, he was battered from corner post to corner post in rings all over the world.
Only when victory was announced in true glitzy boxing style did he leap on to his own corner post, screaming his delight and showing us the kind of emotion that can only help his public recognition.
The student may need to find a particular corner post, then walk several hundred yards, northeast, through an open field to locate an irrigation pump.
Osage-orange posts today cost in the neighborhood of $3 for a four-inch-diameter line post seven feet long to $10 for a seven-inch, nine-foot corner post. Larger ones-the kind you set with immortality in mind-naturally cost more.
The stakers find a corner post then go in opposite directions to fill the boundary in.
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