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, in Architecture, is a concave part or ring of a column, lying above or below the flat member; and it owes its origin to the ring by which the ends of wooden columns were hooped, to prevent them from splitting.
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Entry taken from A Mathematical and Philosophical Dictionary, by Charles Hutton, 1796.
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