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bearing wall

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Noun1.bearing wall - any wall supporting a floor or the roof of a building
support - any device that bears the weight of another thing; "there was no place to attach supports for a shelf"
wall - an architectural partition with a height and length greater than its thickness; used to divide or enclose an area or to support another structure; "the south wall had a small window"; "the walls were covered with pictures"


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The building needed a street presence, but misplaced loading docks and switchgear room, an entry five feet above grade, insufficient elevators, excess stairwells and a 12-story bearing wall each stood in the way.
Everything old is new again at W. 55th St. building by Real Estate Weekly
The limonitic clay-rich hanging-wall veins and white clay-sercite-pyrite bearing wall rocks did not contain significant gold values.
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Dunn--like others who spoke at the hearing--wants the code to prohibit future WTC-like structures (which consisted of a hollow tube bearing wall with long truss floors.
Building code gets new look by Chapman, Parke / Real Estate Weekly
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