basket-handle arch

1. 1.

   a round arch whose inner curve is drawn with circles having three centers

   Synonymsthree-centered arch

   Broaderround arch

Questions about basket-handle arch

What does basket-handle arch mean?

basket-handle arch means "a round arch whose inner curve is drawn with circles having three centers".

What is another word for basket-handle arch?

Close synonyms include three-centered arch. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is basket-handle arch a common word?

basket-handle arch is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.