corbelling

Perhaps just one or two bricks at a time, but it adds up and thus the holes form and the corbelling of the brickwork begins as more and more bricks fall prey to gravity leaving the fully bonded upper walls less and less well supported.

Interactive Dig Hierakonpolis - Hierakonpolis 2009 - Field Note 1 2002

Subsidence and corbelling in a long, low undercut 6.3 long by 0.95 m deep threatened the survival of this section of the north wall, which is still full-standing.

Interactive Dig Hierakonpolis - Fixing the Fort: Part 2 2002

The corner was already weakened by a deep hole at its base and corbelling at foundation level, but it is suspected that unsupervised geological research in the vicinity was the final straw.

Interactive Dig Hierakonpolis - Fixing the Fort: Part 2 2002

One unexpected benefit from a minor loss of bricks from the corbelling ceiling of the gap was the exposure of ancient reeds laid in a horizontal layer between the courses of brick of the first phase construction.

Interactive Dig Hierakonpolis - Hierakonpolis 2009 - Field Note 1 2002

Fig. 247: Detail of the cornice of the parapet with its fired brick corbelling.

Chapter 7 1995

This stepping out pattern of the bricks is called corbelling.

Chapter 8 1989

The corbelling for the seventh layer is shown in the diagrams.

Chapter 8 1989

It has no corbelling and no arched and cusped work; it is merely a plain piece of walling, slightly overhung with a weathered coping at the top and a moulded string beneath.

Bell's Cathedrals: Chichester (1901) A Short History & Description Of Its Fabric With An Account Of The Diocese And See Hubert C. Corlette

The bold corbelling at the top recalls the similar treatment of the towers of

Scottish Cathedrals and Abbeys Herbert Story

Up the angle formed by choir and transept runs a sort of excrescence of masonry that blossoms out, so to speak, into an extraordinary complication of corbelling near the top, and is itself corbelled away at the bottom.

Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ripon A Short History of the Church and a Description of Its Fabric Cecil Walter Charles Hallett