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Knight's 1881 Mechanical Dictionary - Subject Index
Civil Engineering

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Alignment
Anchor-gate
Anchor-suspension cable
Angle of repose
Aqueduct
Arch
Arched beam
Artesian well
Auger
Baleine
Ballast
Bank protector
Banquette
Basalting
Batter
Battering plumb-rule
Battery-head
Beam
Bearing-pile
Beche
Bed
Bench
Berme
Beton
Bevel plumb-rule
Blasting
Blasting-needle
Blinding
Bottoming
Bowstring-girder
Box-beam
Breakwater
Breast-wall
Bridge
Bridge-stone
Caisson
Camel
Camp-sheeting
Canal
Canal-lift
Canal-lock
Canal-lock gate
Carpentry
Causeway
Cendree de Tournay
Centering
Chemise
Claw bar
Cob wall
Coffer dam
Compo
Concrete
Conduit
Construction way
Counter-fort
Coursed masonry
Cradle
Crow's foot
Cuddy
Culvert
Curb
Dam
Dead-wall
Detonating-primer
Digue
Dike
Ditching-machine
Diving-bell
Dock
Drill
Drum-curb
Dualine
Dumping-bucket
Dynamite
Earth-work
Embankment
Excavator
Explorer
Extension ladder
False works
Fascine
Filling
Finger-grip
Fire-escape
Fire-ladder
Flood-gate
Fulminate
Gabion
Gage-ladder
Gavelock
Girder
Grab
Grade
Gradient
Grafting tool
Grapnel
Graving-dock
Grillage
Ground-mold
Ground-plan
Ground-plot
Ground-work
Grout
Gulleting
Gunpowder
Half-lattice girder
Horse power
Horse run
House moving
Hydraulic engineering and devices
Hydraulic mortar
Inclined plane
Jetty
Jumper
Ladder
Laminated rib
Lattice girder
Lengthening rod
Levee
Level
Lewis
Lift-lock
Lighthouse
Lithofracteur
Macadamizing
Masonry
Metal
Mill-dam
Mole
Monkey
Mortar
Nitrine
Nitro-glycerine
Nitroleum
Notching
Oil-well
Pannier
Paved way
Pavement
Paving-machine
Paving-roller
Pebble paving
Pick
Pier
Pierre perdue
Pile
Pile-drawer
Pile-driver
Pile- saw
Pise-work
Pitched work
Plank-road
Polings
Pozzuolana
Praya
Pricker
Profile
Propeller
Pump
Quarrying-machine
Rail
Raising sunken vessels
Ram
Rammer
Reamer
Retaining wall
Rising
Road
Road metal
Road roller
Road scraper
Rock-crusher
Rock drill
Roman cement
Roofing machine
Roof staging
Roof truss
Rounder
Runner
Saddle
Sand scoop
Sand pump
Scaffold
Scagliola
Scarcement
Scraper
Screw-pile
Sea wall
Sewer
Shield
Shrinkage
Side cutting
Signal-tower
Sinking
Slack water navigation
Slating
Slip
Slope
Sludger
Snow-sweeper
Spandrel
Spoil
Staging
Staith
Stall-boards
Starling
Steam-engine
Steining
Stone. Artificial
Street-railway
Street-sprinkler
Subterranean railway
Sub-way
Suspension bridge
Suspension railway
Swing bridge
Talus
Tamping
Tamping-bar
Tamping-plug
Teaming
Telo-dynamic cable
Topit
Track-layer
Traction engine
Tram-road
Trass
Trestle
Truss
Tubular bridge
Tunnel
Vault
Vault-cover
Vault-light
Viaduct
Water-elevator
Water-wheel
Well
Well-drill
Well packing
Well-tube filter
Wharf
Wing wall
Wire way


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