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putlog

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putlog [′pu̇t‚läg]
(civil engineering)
A crosspiece in a scaffold or formwork; supports the soffits and is supported by the ledgers.

putlog
putlogs shown in putlog holes:b
In bricklaying, one of a number of short pieces of timber on which the planks forming the floor of a scaffold are laid, one end resting on the ledger of the scaffold and the other in a putlog hole.


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ring-shaped sugared cookie or cake KITE: a check drawn against uncollected funds in a bank account or fraudulently raised before cashing LEDGER: a horizontal timber secured to the uprights of scaffolding to support the putlog MASK: the head or face of an animal (as a fox or dog) DAVID MORICE Iowa City, Iowa
The putlog scaffold has standards or uprights along its outer edges, but its inner side is supported by the structure or building itself.
The town square remains a distillation of ideal Italian life, with cafes, restaurants and a tiny opera house, and on the other side, the little Gothic cathedral with its tough brick walls regularly patterned by putlog holes that are now noisy and white-bearded nesting boxes for pigeons.
 
 
 
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