The complete book of trades, or, The parent's guide and youth's instructor : forming a popular encyclopaedia of trades, manufactures, and commerce, as at present pursued in England, with a more particular regard to its state in and near the metropolis : including a copious table of every trade, profession, occupation, and calling, however divided and subdivided : together with the apprentice fee usually given with each, and an estimate of the sums required for commencing business (1842)
Whittock, N. (Nathaniel), 1791-1860 · London : Printed for Thomas Tegg · leaf 97
the brick appears in a wall, it is called a stretcher, where the end of it only is seen, it is called a header; and the dis- position of bricks in a building where there are alternate courses of headers and stretchers, is called English bond; the headers serving to bind the wall together in a… … A disposition, which the author before quoted thinks decidedly inferior to the English in every thing but appearance. " Walls," e 2
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