| Title: | Cutting (masonry) |
| Original Title: | Abatage |
| Volume and Page: | Vol. 1 (1751), p. 10 |
| Author: | Jacques-François Blondel (biography) |
| Translator: | Mark K. Jensen [Pacific Lutheran University] |
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| Citation (MLA): | Blondel, Jacques-François. "Cutting (masonry)." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by Mark K. Jensen. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2018. Web. [fill in today's date in the form 18 Apr. 2009 and remove square brackets]. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0003.526>. Trans. of "Abatage," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, vol. 1. Paris, 1751. |
| Citation (Chicago): | Blondel, Jacques-François. "Cutting (masonry)." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by Mark K. Jensen. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0003.526 (accessed [fill in today's date in the form April 18, 2009 and remove square brackets]). Originally published as "Abatage," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, 1:10 (Paris, 1751). |
Cutting. It is called making a cutting of one or several stones when, on a building site or in a workshop, one turns the stones from their beds onto their sides in order to fashion their facings. This is done, for unhewn stones of a middling size, with a scaffolding-hole: but when they are of a certain size, levers, cords, and wedges, etc., are used.