drop arch

drop arch

noun
1.
a pointed arch having radii of length less than the span.
2.
Also called surbased arch. an arch having a rise of less than half its span.

Origin:
1840–50
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Drop arch is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
the offspring of a zebra and a donkey.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
WordNet
drop arch

noun
a blunt pointed arch drawn from two centers within the span 
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