John -

I went to dictionary.com (cuz my paper one is packed away in office stuff), and there's no mention of thicknesses.  There is an architectural reference, on which ][<en may be able to elaborate.  The site sent me to withe (which the spell checker doesn't like, BTW.  Kept correcting it to "with".

withe

\Withe\ (?; 277), n. [OE. withe. ????. See Withy, n.] [Written also with.] 1. A flexible, slender twig or branch used as a band; a willow or osier twig; a withy.

2. A band consisting of a twig twisted.

3. (Naut.) An iron attachment on one end of a mast or boom, with a ring, through which another mast or boom is rigged out and secured; a wythe. --R. H. Dana, Jr.

4. (Arch.) A partition between flues in a chimney.

- Pam



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John,

According to Ralf, that is the correct way to spell that wythe-a-majig thing. I would think that word can be found in a dictionary.

Steve

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Date: 2003/07/31 Thu PM 09:58:33 EDT
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Oh... I used the word "wythe" in a report and got the comment that the reader had never heard the word.  I use the word to describe the thickness of a masonry wall...two wythes, two stones or bricks wide, three, three wythes... am I spelling it wrong, or making up words?

-jc

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