- Also called: bead a small convex moulding, usually with a semicircular cross section
- the ankle or anklebone
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as•tra•gal
(as′trə gəl),USA pronunciation n. [Archit., Furniture.]
- Architecture, Furniturea small convex molding cut into the form of a string of beads. Cf. bead and reel.
- Architecture, Furniturea plain convex molding;
bead. - Architecture, Furniturea molding attached to one or both meeting stiles of a pair of double doors in order to prevent drafts.
- Greek astrágalos a vertebra, the huckle-bone, a molding, a kind of vetch; in plural, dice (i.e., huckle-bones)
- Latin astragalus
- 1555–65
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astragal /ˈæstrəɡəl/ n
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