Soffit

Soffit. The under side of an arch.

Solid

Solid. Not hollow; full of matter; having a fixed form; hard; opposed to liquid or fluid.

Spindle

Spindle. A small mandrel; an arbor; a turning shaft.

Springer

Springer. The post or point at which an arch rests upon its support, and from which it seems to spring.

Sphere

Sphere. A body or space continued under a single surface which, in every part, is equally distant from a point within called its center.

Spur

Spur. A small part jutting from another.

Strike plate

Strike plate. A plate serving as a keeper for a beveled latch bolt and against which the latter strikes in closing.

Steel Tubing

Steel Tubing. Pipes made from steel; tubing is measured across from outside to outside; piping is measured on the inside.

Step-wedge

Step-wedge. A wedge having one straight edge, and the other edge provided with a succession of steps, by means of which the piece gradually grows wider.

Strain, Stresses

Strain, Stresses. To act upon in any way so as to cause change of form or volume; as forces on a beam to bend it.

Strut. Any piece of timber which runs from one timber to another, and is used to support a part.

Stub

Stub. A projecting part, usually of some defined form, and usually designed to enter or engage with a corresponding recess in another member.

Submerged

Submerged. To be buried or covered, as with a fluid; to put under.

Swivel

Swivel. A pivoted member, used in many forms of tools, in which one part turns on the other.

Tail-stock

Tail-stock. The sliding support or block in a lathe, which carries the dead spindle, or adjustable center.

Technical

Technical. Of or pertaining to the useful in mechanical arts, or to any science, business, or the like.

Texture

Texture. The disposition of the several parts of any body in connection with each other; or the manner in which the parts are united.

Tool rest

Tool rest. That part of a lathe, or other mechanism, which supports a tool, or holds the tool support.

Torso

Torso. The human body as distinguished from the head and limbs.

Transverse

Transverse. In a crosswise direction; lying across; at right angles to the longitudinal.

Trimmer

Trimmer. A beam, into which are framed the ends of headers in floor framing, as when a hole is left for stairs, chimneys, and the like.

Truss

Truss. An assemblage of members of wood or iron, supported at two points, and arranged to transmit pressure vertically to those points with the least possible strain, across the length of any member.

Tusk

Tusk. In mechanism, a long projecting part, longer than a tenon, and usually applied to the long or projecting part of a tenon.

Universal joint. A joint wherein one member is made to turn with another, although the two turning members are not in a line with each other.

Vocation

Vocation. Employment; trade; profession; business.

Voissoir

Voissoir. One of the wedgelike stones of which an arch is composed.