Meanings
nounangle shaft (plural angle shafts)
plural angle shafts
- architectureAn enriched or decorated angle bead, often having a capital or base, or both.
The bartizans have each a peculiar angle shaft on the outer face, which mitres into the string-course at bottom, and probably supported a shield with coat of arms or a crest or other ornament rising above the parapet
1887, David MacGibbon and Thomas Ross., The Castellated and Domestic Architecture of Scotland from the Twelfth to the Eighteenth Century
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