Crossword clues for templet
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Templet \Tem"plet\, n. [LL. templatus vaulted, from L. templum a small timber.] [Spelt also template.]
A gauge, pattern, or mold, commonly a thin plate or board, used as a guide to the form of the work to be executed; as, a mason's or a wheelwright's templet.
(Arch.) A short piece of timber, iron, or stone, placed in a wall under a girder or other beam, to distribute the weight or pressure.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A pattern, guide, or model used to indicate the shape any piece of work is to assume when finished. 2 A strip of metal used in boiler-making, pierced with a series of holes, and serving as a guide in marking out a line of rivet-holes.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Templet is a mountain north of Sassenfjorden, at the south side of Bünsow Land at Spitsbergen, Svalbard. Its height is 766 metre. The name Templet stems from its resemblance to a ruined Gothic cathedral, consisting of eroded horisontal layers of shales, silicates and limestones.
The mountain lies within the Sassen – Bünsow Land National Park, and is regarded as a tourist attraction.
Usage examples of "templet".
Perhaps I could put that templet straight, or perhaps the girder might be a little warped and twisted, eh?
The section of rail shall conform as accurately as possible to the templet furnished by the Railroad Company.
Plymouth Rock achieved iconographic status around 1880, when some enterprising residents of the town rejoined its two pieces on the waterfront and built a Greek templet around it.
Even as Danlo did, they all wore templets around their heads, and these nine hundred luminescent bands cast halos of golden light into the black air.
His system of templets and gauges, by means of which every part of an engine or tender corresponded with that of every other engine or tender of the same class, was as great an improvement as Maudslay's system of uniformity of parts in other descriptions of machinery.