templet

In ship-building, a skeleton framework made of thin strips of wood (or occasionally of thin sheet-metal) used to form the outline of any part, as of a plate or bar which is to be fitted to a particular place in the structure. The templet is formed and marked from the parts already erected in place; it is then taken and laid flat on the plate or bar to be used, and the outlines and rivet-holes are transferred to the plate or bar, which can then be sheared, punched, and curved so as to fit the place into which it is to go.

To make or fit by a templet. Also template.

A pattern, guide, or model used to indicate the shape any piece of work is to assume when finished.

A strip of metal used in boiler-making, pierced with a series of holes, and serving as a guide in marking out a line of rivet-holes.

In building: A short piece of timber or a large stone placed in a wall to receive the impost of a girder, beam, etc., and distribute its weight.

A beam or plate spanning a door-or window-space to sustain joists and throw their weight on the piers.

One of the wedges in a building-block.

Same as temple.

In a brilliant, same as bezel, 2. See cut under brilliant.