| a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |
| the offspring of a zebra and a donkey. |
| ANTA American National Theatre and Academy |
antas
in architecture, slightly projecting column at the end of a wall, produced by either a thickening of the wall or attachment of a separate strip. The former type, commonly flanking porches of Greek and Roman temples, is a masonry vestige of the wooden structural posts used to reinforce the brick walls of such early antique temples as the Heraeum of Olympia (c. 600 BC).
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