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Webster 1913 Edition

Gorgerin

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Gorˊge-rin′

,

Noun.

[F., fr.

gorge

neck.]

(Arch.)

In some columns, that part of the capital between the termination of the shaft and the annulet of the echinus, or the space between two neck moldings; – called also

neck of the capital

, and

hypotrachelium

. See Illust. of

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