Shaped building stones, with a flat bottom and sloping top, cut to conform to and support the copings of gables; for the more general meaning of blocks of stone placed in masonry walls to distribute the loads of beams, use "padstones."
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blocks, skew
butts, skew
footstones
gable springers
kneestones
skew blocks
skew butts
skews
springers, gable
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