(top)
a Torgo Software company
Click on a letter to go to the appropriate set of definitions (e-mail us if we forgot a term!)
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Caisson Drilling
Large diameter boring for the purpose of setting piers and piles for structural supports.
Caisson Foundation
A support shaft of concrete placed under a building column or wall.
Cinder Block
(slang) A person who has become dazed and simple-minded, a burnout.
Circling The Drain
(slang) Anything lingering on the brink of dying, especially any third party material suppliers.
Cloon
(slang) To impact the ground with one's head. See also: Cranial Disharmony.
Come-along
(slang) (1) A winch (2) A device for pushing wet concrete (3) A tool is used to assist in delicate alignments and adjustments of structural members, sometimes known as a sledgehammer.
Compo
(slang) Any type of composition material.
Cowboy
(slang) A scraper operator
Cranial Disharmony
(slang) Severe headache and / or mental disorientation, usually do to impact. See also: Cloon.
Crater
(slang) (1) To hit the ground from great altitude. (2)To fail catastrophically.
Crease
(slang) A person with a corporate image in language, dress or manner; a business type.
Cricket
(slang) A structural build-up that fills in crevices at the rear slope of a chimney, covered with flashing to shed water and snow.