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1 [1768] 1826 CARTWRIGHT ii, 309 We found [the square habitation] to be a rectangle framed nearly in the fashion of the English fishing houses, only that the studs were something apart, from which it was evident that they alone could not, in that state, form the shell, as in the English buildings, where they are closely joined together. [1811] 1915 HOWLEY 85 Considerable pains were employed on these I found them in, and which were of the octagonal structure, the diameter of the base being nearly 22 feet, and enclosed with studs of four feet above the surface. 1832 MOSS MS Diary 14 Mar Began putting up the studs of the new store.
