hawksbeak
hawksbeak, hawksbill.
1. Romanesque ovolo moulding enriched with sculpted beak-heads.
2. Any moulding with a convex top and a concave underside meeting at a point, in section resembling the beak of a bird of prey, as on a string-course.
3. Doric moulding related to the cyma recta.
4. Crossette in the sense of a volute at the upper corner of a door-or window-architrave.
1. Romanesque ovolo moulding enriched with sculpted beak-heads.
2. Any moulding with a convex top and a concave underside meeting at a point, in section resembling the beak of a bird of prey, as on a string-course.
3. Doric moulding related to the cyma recta.
4. Crossette in the sense of a volute at the upper corner of a door-or window-architrave.