English Dictionary

skew

/skjuː/

noun

(architecture) A stone at the foot of the slope of a gable, the offset of a buttress, etc., cut with a sloping surface and with a check to receive the coping stones and retain them in place; a skew-corbel.

The skew of the data indicates a bias towards higher values.

意味（1）

(architecture) A stone at the foot of the slope of a gable, the offset of a buttress, etc., cut with a sloping surface and with a check to receive the coping stones and retain them in place; a skew-corbel.

How many yards of roofing and serking, in a Roof 45 feet, 8 in. long, from skew to skew; and 21 feet, 8 in. deep, from ridge to easing, including 9 inches for wall plates or double eave?

意味（2）

(chiefly Scotland, architecture) The coping of a gable.

Gable Copings or Skews are of various forms of section, the most common varieties being the parallel sided, Fig. 654; the weathered, or feather-edged, Fig. 655; and the saddle-backed, Fig. 656. … The skews at the eaves terminate in what is termed a club-skew or skew-corbel. This admits of an infinite variety of forms, according to the style of the building, but the object is the same in all—namely, to afford a support and abutment to the skew.

意味（3）

(architecture, obsolete) One of the stones placed over the end of a gable, or forming the coping of a gable.

https://books.google.com/books?id=rDwJAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR28 page xxviii Here ensuithe an abstracte of the freemasons worke. … It'm, the walle new made on the west syde of the watergate … a bottres made wᵗ harde asheler of Kent, l. foot, and in Cane asheler a skew vj. foot, … https://books.google.com/books?id=rDwJAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR29 page xxix It'm, at the Juell Hows door, iij. spaces covered wᵗ skew and crest, amontying xxxvj. fote of stone.