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The Hound of the Baskervilles vocabulary
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lintel
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synonyms: overslay, superliminary, transom ???
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Definition:a load-bearing supportive block above a door, window, fireplace or other architectural opening
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He went in, bowing his head under the low lintel.
James Joyce. Ulysses
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we had even trekked around the circumference of the circle, pacing off the distance between the Z holes and the Y holes, and counting the lintels in the Sarsen Circle, the outermost ring of monstrous uprights.
Diana Gabaldon. Outlander (1991)
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I stooped under the rude lintel, and there he sat upon a stone outside, his gray eyes dancing with amusement as they fell upon my astonished features.
Arthur Conan Doyle. Sherlock Holmes: The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902)
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Had a fine view of the five Neptunian asteroids, and watched with much interest the putting up of a huge impost on a couple of lintels in the new temple at Daphnis in the moon.
Edgar Allan Poe. The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 4: Mellonta Tauta (1849)
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