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  2. Tuckpointing - Wikipedia

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    Tuckpointing is a way of using two contrasting colours of mortar in the mortar joints of brickwork, with one colour matching the bricks themselves to give an artificial impression that very fine joints have been made.

  3. Repointing - Wikipedia

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    Weatherstruck is when the mortar starts close to the bottom brick and recesses back as it goes up towards the upper brick. The third, recessed, is when the mortar sits back from the face of the brick. There is also tuckpointing, where a mortar of a contrasting colour is 'tucked' into the masonry joint.

  4. Mortar joint - Wikipedia

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    Some mortar joint styles. In masonry, mortar joints are the spaces between bricks, concrete blocks, or glass blocks, that are filled with mortar or grout.If the surface of the masonry remains unplastered, the joints contribute significantly to the appearance of the masonry. [1]

  5. Nutraloaf - Wikipedia

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    Nutraloaf, also known as meal loaf, prison loaf, disciplinary loaf, food loaf, lockup loaf, confinement loaf, seg loaf, grue or special management meal, [1] is food served in prisons in the United States, and formerly in Canada, [2] to inmates who have misbehaved, abused food, or have inflicted harm upon themselves or others. [3]

  6. Pointing - Wikipedia

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    Joe Schmidt pointing during an Ireland national rugby union team training session. Pointing is a gesture specifying a direction from a person's body, usually indicating a location, person, event, thing or idea.

  7. Lime mortar - Wikipedia

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    Lime comes from Old English lim ('sticky substance, birdlime, mortar, cement, gluten'), and is related to Latin limus ('slime, mud, mire'), and linere ('to smear'). [7] Mortar is a mixture with cement and comes from Old French mortier ('builder's mortar, plaster; bowl for mixing') in the late 13th century and Latin mortarium ('mortar'). [7]

  8. Brickwork - Wikipedia

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    A "face brick" is a higher-quality brick, designed for use in visible external surfaces in face-work, as opposed to a "filler brick" for internal parts of the wall, or where the surface is to be covered with stucco or a similar coating, or where the filler bricks will be concealed by other bricks (in structures more than two bricks thick).

  9. List of pastries - Wikipedia

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    Recipes can range from sweet to savory, and from very simple to festive and elaborate multi-layered cakes. Gujiya: India: A traditional Indian pastry, typically prepared by filling a round, flat pastry with a sweet filling made of dried fruits, grated coconut and condensed milk solids. It is usually fried in ghee, and sometimes soaked in sugar ...