Projecting Support Crossword Clue

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Possible answers to projecting support


- Parenthesis
- Projecting support
- Punctuation mark
- Shelf support
- Support fixed to a wall
- An architectural member, plain or ornamental, projecting from a wall or pier, to support weight falling outside of the same; also, a decorative feature seeming to discharge such an office.
- A piece or combination of pieces, usually triangular in general shape, projecting from, or fastened to, a wall, or other surface, to support heavy bodies or to strengthen angles.

- Permanently attached to a base
- Attached without any sensible projecting support.
- Resting directly upon the main stem or branch, without a petiole or footstalk; as, a sessile leaf or blossom.
- Permanently attached; -- said of the gonophores of certain hydroids which never became detached.

- Polynesian canoe
- Any spar or projecting timber run out for temporary use, as from a ship's mast, to hold a rope or a sail extended, or from a building, to support hoisting teckle.
- A projecting support for a rowlock, extended from the side of a boat.
- A boat thus equipped.
- A projecting contrivance at the side of a boat to prevent upsetting, as projecting spars with a log at the end.

- Bird of prey
- Bird with lifting device
- Building site machine
- Egret relative
- Heron-like bird
- Hoist
- Hoisting machine

- Wall bracket for candles
- A fortification, or work for defense; a fort.
- A hut for protection and shelter; a stall.
- A piece of armor for the head; headpiece; helmet.
- Fig.: The head; the skull; also, brains; sense; discretion.
- A poll tax; a mulct or fine.
- A protection for a light; a lantern or cased support for a candle; hence, a fixed hanging or projecting candlestick.

- The psalm usually appointed for penitential acts, being the 50th psalm in the Latin version. It commences with the word miserere.
- A musical composition adapted to the 50th psalm.
- A small projecting boss or bracket, on the under side of the hinged seat of a church stall (see Stall). It was intended, the seat being turned up, to give some support to a worshiper when standing. Called also misericordia.
- Same as Ileus.

- An opening between the corbels which support a projecting parapet, or in the floor of a gallery or the roof of a portal, shooting or dropping missiles upen assailants attacking the base of the walls. Also, the construction of such defenses, in general, when of this character. See Illusts. of Battlement and Castle.
- The act of discharging missiles or pouring burning or melted substances upon assailants through such apertures.

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