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Undercroft
Usually describes the vaulted room or rooms beneath the main room or rooms of a medieval house. Compare
crypt
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Undershot water wheel
One turned by the momentum of the water passing beneath. Compare
breastshot
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overshot
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pitchback
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Univallate
Of a hill-fort: defended by one concentric bank and ditch.
Upper cruck
A type of timber construction in which curving paired members (
blades
) are supported on a
tie-beam
and rise to the apex.
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