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A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture | 2000 | | © A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture 2000, originally published by Oxford University Press 2000. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

saddle.
1. Cap of a door-cill or the bottom part of a door-frame.

2. Thin timber board, or threshold, sloping slightly on each side, fixed on the floor between the jambs.

3. Short length of structural timber fixed to the tops of two cruck blades, forming the flattened top to a ∧ shape, and providing a support for the ridge-piece.

4. Any ∧-shaped form suggesting a saddle in section, usually a splayed capping for a ridge or a cope-stone.

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