LL-L: "Special terms" LOWLANDS-L, 04.JAN.2000 (02) [E]

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From: Pat Reynolds [pat at caerlas.demon.co.uk]
Subject: LL-L: C16th Dutch carpentry terms

I am reading Dr E.J. Haslinghuis' "Bouwkundige termen", and would
appreciate any help with some terms, taken, I think, from a document of
1589 relating to a common-rafter-with-truss roof (sporenkap met
gebinten) in Gorinchem.
The terms I am having trouble with are:
cromstijl (is this a knee brace, or a principle with curved feet? - the
Dutch looks as though it is the former, but Haslinghuis' diagram looks
like the latter, or is it something else?)
crybeel (looks like a strut)
wousteerten ("muerplaet met wousteerten in blockeels")(a kind of joint?
- looks as if it might be a halved lap joint - the wall plate retains
its thickness, but the soleplate (blokkeel) is cut down, so that the
wall plate nests in it)
voorloeven ("ribben met voorloeven, vier per vak met wousteerten")
(looks like cogged joists; joists jointed into a transverse beam with a
half lap joint).

I would like to know both (or either) the modern Dutch, and the English.

Many thanks,
--
Pat Reynolds
pat at caerlas.demon.co.uk
   "It might look a bit messy now, but just you come back in 500 years time"
   (T. Pratchett)

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