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Glossary

Tidal gates
(Canals): Single pair of lock gates allowing vessels to pass when the tide makes a level.
Tie-beam
Main horizontal transverse timber in a roof structure, which carries the feet of the principals at wall level.
Tierceron
In a rib-vault, an extra decorative rib springing from the corner of a bay; hence tierceron vault.
Tifting
(Scots): a mortar bed for verge slates laid over the gable skew.
Tile-hanging
Covering of overlapping tiles on a wall, which is then said to be tile-hung. Slate-hanging is similar.
Tiltyard
An open area used for jousting.
Timber framing
Method of construction in which the structural frame is built of interlocking timbers. In close studding the uprights (studs) are set close together, in square panel construction the main uprights (posts) and horizontals (rails) form large square or near-square compartments. The spaces are filled with non-structural material, e.g. infill of wattle and daub, lath and plaster, brickwork (known as nogging), etc. and may be covered by plaster, weatherboarding (overlapping horizontal boards), or tiles.
Tolbooth
(Scots; lit. tax booth): Tax office containing burgh council chamber and prison.
Tolsey
An exchange or market house; the Irish term is tholsel.
Tomb-chest
Chest-shaped tomb, usually of stone.