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Tournament: Jousting competition; originally training for Vitrified - Material reduced to glass by extreme heat.
warfare, later a popular medieval sporting event. Volute - Spiral scroll at angle of a capital.
Tower house: A residential tower, with stacked hall,
Voussoirs: Wedge-shaped stone building block used in constructing
chambers, and service rooms.
an arch or vault
Tracery - Intersecting ribwork in upper part of window.

Transom - Horizontal division of window; crossbar.
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Trebuchet: A stone-throwing machine working on the
principle of counterweight.
Wall passage: A corridor within the thickness of the wall.
Trefoil - (architectural) Ornament, in the form of three arcs Wall-plate - Horizontal roof-timber on wall-top.
arranged in a circle. Three-lobed.
Tufa - Hard volcanic rock; soft porous limestone Wall-stair - Staircase built into the thickness of a wall.
Wall-walk: A walkway along the top of a walls battlements, protect-
Turning Bridge Counterbalanced bridge in which
ed by the parapet.
weights on the inner end allow the outer end to swing up
quickly. Ward: The bailey; the area within the castle walls.
Turning bridge A drawbridge that pivots in the middle. Water-leaf - Plain broad leaf moulding.
Turnpike stairs. Spiral staircase where the central Water gate: A fortified gate leading to quays on a river or seaside,
post is a Newel. for use
of people and supplies arriving by boat.
Turret - Small tower, round or polygonal; usually a lookout.
Wattle - A mat of woven (willow) sticks and weeds; used in wall and
Turret: A small tower attached to a wall or another tower.
dike construction.
Truss - A timber frame used to support the roof over the
Wave - Sinuous moulding.
great hall.
Weathering - Sloping surface to throw off rainwater.
Turtle: A moveable protective roof for siege engines.
Wicket: A small door within another door; a small gate in a fence.
Tympanum - Space between lintel and arch over door-
way. Wing-Wall - Wall descending the slope of a motte
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Vault: Stone or masonry arched, roofing. (See barrel vault, Yett: (Scot) A strong metal grille protecting a doorway in a Scottish
groin vault, ribbed vault.) tower house.

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