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MOULDINGS

Volume 14 · 111 words · 1810 Edition

in Architecture, projections beyond the naked wall, column, wainscot, &c., the assemblage of which forms cornices, door cases, and other decorations of Architecture. See that article.

MOULINET is used, in Mechanics, to signify a roller, which, being crossed with two levers, is usually applied to cranes, capstans, and other sorts of engines of the like nature, to draw ropes, heave up stones, &c.

MOULINET is also a kind of turnstile, or wooden cross, which turns horizontally upon a stake fixed in the ground; usually placed in passages to keep out horses, and to oblige passengers to go and come one by one. These moulinets are often let near the outworks of