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Architectural drop
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gutta
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Gutta is the debut studio album by American rapper Ace Hood . It was released on November 18, 2008, by We the Best Music Group and Def Jam Recordings . The album debuted at number 36 on the US Billboard 200 , selling 24,700 copies in its first week. The ...
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n. (context architecture English) A small water-repelling, cone-shaped projection used in the architrave of the Doric order in classical architecture.
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Gutta \Gut"ta\, n.; pl. Gutt[AE] . [L.] A drop. (Arch.) One of a series of ornaments, in the form of a frustum of a cone, attached to the lower part of the triglyphs, and also to the lower faces of the mutules, in the Doric order; -- called also campana ...
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They are chiefly sugar, pepper, tin, nutmegs, mace, sago, tapioca, rice, buffalo hides and horns, rattans, gutta, india rubber, gambier, gums, coffee, dye-stuffs, and tobacco, but the island itself, though its soil looks rich from its redness, only produces pepper and gambier.
But because each gutta tree yields only two or three pounds of gutta-percha, and long submarine cables could require hundreds, even thousands, of tons, the next fifty years would see the gutta trees extirpated from much of their native range.