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Half Round-
  A moulding whose profile is half a circle.  May be used as a screen moulding or bead, shelf edge or panel mould.

 

Hand-
 

A term describing the swinging direction of a door as one stands from the outside.

 

Hand Rail-
Used as a hand support in a stairwell. 

 

Hardboard-
 

A board material manufactured of wood fiber, which is then refined or partly refined to form a panel having a density range of approximately 50 to 80 pounds per cubic foot under carefully controlled optimum combinations of consolidating pressure, heat and moisture so that the board produced has a characteristic natural ligneous bond.

 

Hardwood-
 

One of the botanical groups of trees that has broad leaves in contrast to the needle-like leaves of the conifers or softwoods; hardwoods are deciduous (they shed their leaves in the fall or at the end of each growing season).

 

Head-
 

The main horizontal member forming the top of the window or door frame.

 

Header-
 

A horizontal framing member placed over the rough opening of a window to prevent the weight of wall or roof from resting on the window frame.

Hinge-
 

A jointed or flexible device on which a door or window turns.

 

Hook Strip-
 

A wood moulding nailed along the walls of a closet to support clothes hooks, shelves, and closet poles.

 

Hopper-
 

A light or cut-out formed by a horizontal bar extending from stile to stile of a sash or door.

 

Horn-
 

The extension of stile, jamb or sill.

Double Horn-
Horns at both ends.

Jamb Horn-
The extension of a frame side jamb beyond the sill and head jamb.

Sill Horn-
The extension of the "lip" of a window sill to the outside edge of the casing, brick moulding or sometimes wide blind stop or blindstop extension; the extension of a door sill beyond the frame, sometimes "lugs."

 

Hygroscopic
 

Ability to absorb moisture easily.

 


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