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End Grain: The view of the grain at the end of a piece of timber, such as is seen when timber is cut across the grain direction (traverse).

Entablature: In Classical architecture, it's the sum of the mouldings (or the beam) above columns, composed of the architrave, frieze, and the cornice.

Escutcheon: Basically, it's any applied metal plate, but the term mainly applies to the pivoting metal guard or plate found over over a keyhole, and, properly, to the keyhole surround itself. Also, used as a term for the plate bearing the maker's name on a clock face. [picture]

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