There were several" Standards "in the City used for the supply of water with conduits or cisterns in them.
Migne defines " Standardus" as "Forte castellum, aquae receptaculum."
·noun The sheth of a plow. II. Standard ·noun A large drinking cup. III. Standard ·adj Not of the ...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
Formerly, in ship-building, was an inverted knee, placed upon the deck instead of beneath it, and ha...
The Sailor's Word-Book
·adj Bred in conformity to a standard. Specif., applied to a registered trotting horse which comes u...
·noun A curious paradise bird (Semioptera Wallacii) which has two long special feathers standing ere...
See standard. ...
Those planks of the pine or fir above 7 inches wide and 6 feet long: under that length they are know...
See deck standard-knees. ...
At the east end of Cornhill, where the four streets met, in the middle of the street (S. 189). It s...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
In the middle of Cheapside, nearly opposite the south end of Honey Lane, east of Bread Street (Leake...
Iron knees having two tails, the one going on the bottom of a deck-beam, the other on the top of a h...
A knee fayed vertically beneath a hold-beam, with one arm bolted on the lower side of the beam. ...
Opposite the south end of Shoe Lane, in Farringdon Ward Without (S. 110, 394). First mention: " The...
Mentioned by Stow (391) and the waste of the water served the prisoners in Ludgate. ...