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Stone Mountain Cabins

batten: Narrow strips of wood used to cover joints or as decorative vertical members over plywood or wide boards.

batter board: one of a pair of horizontal boards nailed to posts set at the corners of an excavation, used to indicate the desired level, also as a fastening for stretched strings to indicate outlines of foundation walls.

battered column base: stone veneered at a 12:1 slope on a concrete or concrete block column base.

bay window: any window space projecting outward from the walls of a building, either square or polygonal in plan.

beam: a structural member transversely supporting a load.

beam ceiling: a ceiling in which the ceiling beams are exposed to view.

bearing partition: a partition that supports any vertical load in addition to its own weight.