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protected corner

protected corner

The corner of a concrete slab provided with a means of transferring at least 20% of the load from that corner to the corner of an adjacent slab, either by mechanical means or by aggregate interlock.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Architecture and Construction. Copyright © 2003 by McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
References in classic literature
Before extinguishing the candle by which he had dressed himself, he made a little parcel of his decent silver watch and its decent guard, and wrote inside the paper: 'Kindly take care of these for me.' He then addressed the parcel to Miss Peecher, and left it on the most protected corner of the little seat in her little porch.
And we are now men, and must accept in the highest mind the same transcendent destiny; and not minors and invalids in a protected corner, not cowards fleeing before a revolution, but guides, redeemers and benefactors, obeying the Almighty effort and advancing on Chaos and the Dark.
Beyond our protected corner of the beach, the jetty, made of giant blocks of pink and grey granite, juts out into the ocean.
Niloo fashions, for example, what her husband names the Perimeter, a fiercely protected corner in every place she lives that is for her alone.
A yellow-splashed fast-growing climber, it is also slightly tender so is best given a protected corner.
And we are now men, and must accept in the highest mind the same transcendent destiny; and not minors or invalids in a protected corner, not cowards fleeing before a revolution, but guides, redeemers, and benefactors, obeying the Almighty effort and advancing on Chaos and the Dark ...
The new trees will also be an important addition to the habitat of a colony of great-crested newts, which live in a protected corner of the marina.
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